On April 30, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari for review of a settlement agreement in which an online search company agreed to pay millions of dollars to third-party privacy nonprofit organizations, while providing nothing to users of the company, to settle allegations of illegal information-sharing with advertisers. The review marks the first instance in which the Supreme Court will consider cy pres remedies, where awards in a class action are provided to a non-party in place of providing the award to the plaintiff class.
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