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There are no slam dunks in cases like this? I would have at least had a lawyer send a letter and maybe file the case to see if they would have released the funds. I don't think they have legality to keep what he has earned even if it was from a thousand or two dollars in illegal clicks. Their system can decipher bad from good clicks, then it can tell you how much is rightfully owed.

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Of course there is risk involved in any formal legal action. But equally, a business is not above the law just because it has a lot of money, and having expensive lawyers doesn't magically mean you win every case.

With $100K in dispute, it would be surprising if no lawyer would even be willing to take the first steps, or if the cost of paying one to do so would be so outrageous that it wasn't worth considering if Google really were pulling a fast one.

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