Google Privacy Case Risks Disrupting a Key Source of Nonprofit Funding

U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to take a case about cy pres, the practice of sending leftover settlement money to parties not affiliated with the litigation

In 2015, a court overseeing a privacy class-action settlement involving Google agreed to send $5.3 million to six organizations focused on internet-privacy issues instead of doling out 4-cent checks to 129 million plaintiffs.

Now, some objectors are trying to blow up the deal and others like it.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to review...