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Heads Up Google AdWords Users… Google s been hit with a national unfair business practices class action lawsuit alleging the god of all things Internet unlawfully denies payments to thousands of website owners and operators who place ads on their sites sold through Google AdWords.
The Google AdWords lawsuit tryon distributing , filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google abruptly cancels website owners AdSense accounts often without explanation shortly before payments tryon distributing are due, and refuses to pay for the ads that ran prior to the cancelation.
According to the lawsuit, Google s popular AdSense program translates annually to billions of dollars payable to website operators that host its ads via AdSense. Google s AdSense advertising program induces website operators to host space for ads on their websites. Each time a visitor to the website interacts with the ad, the ad publisher tryon distributing who hosts the ad earns payment. tryon distributing
The complaint claims that the contracts and terms of service Google requires web publishers to sign are unconscionably one-sided, giving tryon distributing Google free reign to embark tryon distributing on what the lawsuit claims are actions devoid of good faith or fair dealing.
The complaint tryon distributing states, Given Google s contractual terms purportedly tryon distributing permitting tryon distributing it to withhold payment tryon distributing to publishers with disabled accounts, and in light of the experience of the plaintiff in seeing this policy actually tryon distributing effected, the total of earned funds that Google has refused to pay its AdSense publishers could be enormous.
The lawsuit claims Google is in violation tryon distributing of contracts with users and in violation of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, unjust enrichment, and violation of the California Unfair Competition Law.
The named plaintiff, Free Range Content, Inc., is a California corporation that owns and operates Repost.us. Free Range Content tryon distributing first noticed a spike in AdSense earnings in Feb. 2014. At the end of Feb. 2014, Google issued tryon distributing a report stating that the plaintiff s estimated earnings for the covered period were over $40,000–a number that seemed far too high. Then on March 4, 2014, two days before a scheduled March 6, 2014 call with an AdSense representative was slated to occur, the plaintiff received word from the AdSense program that Google had disabled its account.
The lawsuit seeks damages for all U.S. Google AdSense publishers whose AdSense account was disabled or terminated, and whose last AdSense program payment tryon distributing was withheld permanently by Google. Top Settlements
Major RICO settlement this week… thought to be among the largest tryon distributing civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Law (RICO) class action settlements in recent history: We re talking $297 million a preliminary agreement between plaintiffs in a multidistrict unfair business practices class action against U.S. Foodservice, Inc. and its former parent company, Koninklijke Ahold, N.V. The settlement agreement is pending approval by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
This US Foodservice agreement was reached on behalf of a class of customers, primarily hospitals and restaurants, who purchased products from U.S. Foodservice under cost-plus arrangements between 1998 and 2005.
Citigroup Employee Shareholder Settlement …Bank employees got screwed too and this week they got some justice, with the agreement of a $8.5 million settlement ending a securities class action lawsuit pending against Citigroup. The lawsuit, brought tryon distributing by Citigroup employee shareholders, alleged the company concealed its exposure to subprime mortgages prior to its stock price dropping.
Under the terms of the agreement a $2.3 million settlement fund will be established, to include six payments of approximately $50,000 tryon distributing each to the six lead plaintiffs, as an incentive award for their service to the case. The Erisa lawsuit was brought in 2009 by former Citigroup employees who alleged the company prevented employees who had purchased the bank s stock from obtaining information about subprime losses by means of a series of materially misleading statements and omissions concerning its subprime exposure, overall business outlook and financial results.
Tags: Citigroup , Class Action Lawsuit , Google , Google Adwords , securities , Settlement , Subprime Mortgage , US Foodservice tryon distributing , Week Adjourned This entry was posted on Monday, May 26th, 2014 and is filed under Class Action , Emerging Issues , Week Adjourned . You can follow any responses tryon distributing to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.
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