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Google’s Big SCOTUS Season

The O.G. tech giant is facing dire legal challenges from nearly every direction, over promoting terrorism, stealing rap lyrics, and more. The consequences could ricochet through Silicon Valley and Hollywood, from TikTok and Yelp to YouTube and Netflix.

Sundar Pichai
Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
October 3, 2022

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced the results of its “long conference,” the beginning-of-term vote-a-rama where the justices sift through the hundreds of petitions that have piled up through the summer. The high court rejected quite a few of the cases I had been following, including Scientology’s bid to force a Danny Masterson accuser into arbitration, Charles Harder’s latest attempt to make it easier for libel plaintiffs, and David Lowery’s efforts to get the justices to examine “cy pres,” that is, class action settlement money that goes to third-party charities instead of individuals whose injuries are being addressed.