This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
Class Action,
Consumer Law

May 16, 2024

Full 9th Circuit panel to consider data privacy

The case involves the extraction of the plaintiff's personal data when making a purchase at a retailer that used the company's services.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to consider en banc a California resident's class action against a Canadian e-commerce platform, Shopify Inc., for allegedly violating privacy and unfair competition laws because it extracted his personal data when he was making a purchase at a retailer that used the company's services.

Hueston Hennigan LLP partner Moez M. Kaba persuaded a three-judge panel to affirm the dismissal of the case last November, arguing that plaintif...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up