U.S. Supreme Court spurns Google bid to avoid shareholder lawsuit


FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Supreme Court during a storm, at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 22, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc's attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security glitch that left private user data exposed.

The justices left in place a lower court's ruling that revived the lawsuit brought over the 2018 incident that the company was slow to disclose, turning away Alphabet's appeal.

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