{"id":151179,"date":"2026-05-13T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/13\/i-cant-say-it-without-gasping-calif-judge-blasts-class-counsels-85m-fee-request-in-google-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:35:17","slug":"i-cant-say-it-without-gasping-calif-judge-blasts-class-counsels-85m-fee-request-in-google-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/13\/i-cant-say-it-without-gasping-calif-judge-blasts-class-counsels-85m-fee-request-in-google-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Can’t Say It Without Gasping’: Calif. Judge Blasts Class Counsel’s $85M Fee Request in Google Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The pyramids were built in less time than it took to litigate this case,” U.S. District Judge James Donato, in the Northern District of California, told class counsel at an April 30 hearing.<\/p>\n

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“The pyramids were built in less time than it took to litigate this case,” U.S. District Judge James Donato, in the Northern District of California, told class counsel at an April 30 hearing.<\/p>\n

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“The pyramids were built in less time than it took to litigate this case,” U.S. District Judge James Donato, in the Northern District of California, told class counsel at an April 30 hearing. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “The pyramids were built in less time than it took to litigate this case,” U.S. District Judge James Donato, in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/legal-news-DMYamS.jpg?fit=768%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}