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Business Law

Sep. 24, 2026

Cotchett team behind $2.6B Musk verdict targets Alphabet over privacy practices

An Oklahoma pension fund alleges Alphabet's board allowed Google to pursue a data-hungry business model despite billions of dollars in privacy-related fines, settlements and verdicts.

Cotchett team behind $2.6B Musk verdict targets Alphabet over privacy practices
Mark C. Molumphy of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP

Three Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP attorneys who helped win an estimated $2.6 billion securities verdict against Elon Musk earlier this year are turning their attention to Google.

A derivative action filed Tuesday in the Northern District of California on behalf of an Oklahoma pension fund accuses Alphabet Inc.'s directors and executives of failing to rein in Google's data collection practices despite mounting litigation and billions of dollars in privacy-related fin...

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