Title is perfectly accurate imo.

The case originally had Oracle seeking 8.8b in damages. Oracle won the revival. Therefore Oracle won the revival of a billion dollar case.

The title does not state or imply that google will pay the full amount, only that the case is not dead.

I know, click bait is bad, but it really irks me that people on HN are so quick to pull the 'click-bait' card for no reason.

Would a different title really change anyone's interpretation of the article? I don't think so.

How is the title click-bait? It doesn't say that Google will pay billions. It says it is a billion-dollar case...and it is (at least potentially).

  If this meets your definition of "very clickbaity" then where could you go to avoid click-bait?!

Well it's 25% clickbaity IMO - it was the billion dollar case, but perhaps "Java Copyright Case" would have been better.