"Judging" by the last 13 years of US case law, the lower court judgment routinely will be appealed to the 9th Circuit. The 9th Circuit is generally very good on private international law, and routinely reverses any decisions undermining comity in almost any context. Then the Supreme Court will either find a way to refuse to hear the appeal by technicality-farming (cf Yahoo), or hear it very solemnly and duck the issues with filibuster-like waffling of unsurpassed elegance (cf Aerospatiale), very loosely boiled down to "sod off, yeah sure we can't think of any way to avoid hearing this case but we refuse to disturb the court of appeal finding however silly it might seem to us and everyone else because for the Supreme Court to endorse our own Courts' refusals to follow others' rulings would end the rule of law in international transactions and make us an obvious rogue state and thus defeat public policy".
Simple enough. But who knows what happens this time? Make no mistake, it's important. Not because of the issues here, which are not existential for Google. But because next year we have the GDPR, which is. No doubt that's what Google is thinking, too...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
