Lawyer: Google Settlement Abuses Class-Action Process

“When the [Google books] settlement was announced last October, Google and the groups representing authors and publishers who had originally sued the company hailed the agreement as a public good.” But lately, objections to it have been snowballing, and the Justice Department has launched an antitrust probe. Now a prominent Washington lawyer, who’s also an author, “plans to file a sweeping opposition to the settlement on Wednesday.”