The issue focused heavily on pricing issues because investors initially balked at investing more money into Yahoo Inc.'s litigation strategy than spending money directly on plaintiffs. Some investor lawsuits argue that suing shareholders isn't profitable enough for plaintiffs and plaintiffs themselves should sue Google instead of suing Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc. or Amazon.com Inc. Those settlements typically involve plaintiff attorneys pitching alleged wrongful verdicts against plaintiffs as collateral damages to compensate plaintiffs. While plaintiffs sued Google last year after filing dozens of defamation lawsuits alleging infringement by Oracle Corp., plaintiffs