The Legalizer

April 24th, 2008 Collectibles site Bigreds.com filed a lawsuit against Yahoo in the US District Court in the Eastern District of New York over the Overture affiliate click fraud allegation. Court order shows that Bigreds has shown their belief that a lucrative affiliate program was run over by Overture led to the alleged click fraud.

July 28th, 2006 Final approval to $90 million click-fraud class-action settlement between Google Inc. and advertisers, alleged Google allowed third parties to drive up fees by fraudulent use of its Web search advertising system has been granted in Arakansas court.

August 8th, 2006 A new complaint has been filed in "click fraud" class action lawsuit against Google, the search engine, that Google hasn't taken steps to prevent click fraud and has misrepresented efforts to stop swindlers from repeatedly clicking Web site links to drive up advertising costs. The judge handling the case will have to consider whether to accept a $90 million settlement offer from Google.

May 12th, 2006 An ex-Google Inc. advertiser Joseph Kinney sued over a proposed $90 million class action settlement in Arkansas state court, arguing the amount grossly understates how much the online search engine leader has benefited from a ruse known as "click fraud." The class action suit alleged Google and its advertising partners have improperly profited from click fraud.

October 3rd, 2006 A class action lawsuit which alleged Qwest Communications International Inc. and former shareholders with securities fraud-related losses when Qwest stock fell from a high of $64 a share to below $2 after Qwest in 2002 restated $2.2 billion in revenue for the previous two years has been approved to be settled for $400 million.

March 9th, 2006 Google Inc. said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it. The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed by Lane's Gifts earlier this year in an Arkansas state court and is designed to settle all outstanding claims against Google for fraud committed using its pay-per-click ad system back to 2002, it said.

July 24th, 2006 A U.S. judge will revise $90 million “click fraud” settlement between Internet search engine Google Inc. and advertisers who say they were victims, after receiving 51 objections over the agreement.

December 6th, 2006 FMF Capital Group Ltd. has reached an agreement with counsel for the plaintiffs to resolve all three class-action lawsuits against FMF Capital Group Ltd.