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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Google LLC
Current Parent Company: Alphabet Inc.
Penalty: $4,875,000
Year: 2019
Date: November 12, 2019
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Huawei and Google agreed to pay a total of $9.75 million to settle litigation alleging that their Nexus 6P smartphones were prone to battery drain and booting up at random. Court documents did not specify how much each company would pay. Here we assume they each paid half of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 5:17cv2185
Case Name: In re Nexus 6P Products Liability Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: California
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: information technology
Specific Industry of Current Parent: internet services
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