IN RE ZYNGA PRIVACY LITIGATION

Nos. 11-18044, 12-15619.

750 F.3d 1098 (2014)

In re ZYNGA PRIVACY LITIGATION, Nancy Walther Graf; Richard Beiles; Howard L. Schreiber; John Swanson; Lellaniah Adams; Valerie Gudac; William J. O'Hara; Iris Phee; Zena Carmel-Jessup; Shelley Albani; Christopher Brock; Karen Bryant; Barbara Moskowitz, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Zynga Game Network, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Appellee. In re Facebook Privacy Litigation, Mike Robertson, as representative of the class, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Facebook, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 8, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam J. Levitt (argued), Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Chicago, IL; Francis M. Gregorek, Betsy C. Manifold , Rachele R. Rickert , and Patrick H. Moran , Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, San Diego, CA; Jonathan Shub , Seeger Weiss LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael J. Aschenbrener , Aschenbrener Law, PC, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Nancy Walther Graf, John Swanson, Richard Beiles, Howard L. Schreiber, Lellaniah Adams, Valerie Gudac, William J. O'Hara, Iris Phee, Zena Carmel-Jessup, Shelley Albani, Christopher Brock, Karen Bryant, and Barbara Moskowitz.

Kassra Nassiri (argued), Nassiri & Jung LLP, San Francisco, CA; John Joseph Manier , Nassiri & Jung LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant Mike Robertson.

Richard L. Seabolt (argued), Suzanne R. Fogarty , Oliver E. Benn , Duane Morris LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Zynga Game Network, Inc.

Aaron Martin Panner (argued), Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.; Matthew D. Brown , Cooley LLP, San Francisco, CA; James M. Penning , Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Facebook, Inc.

Before: ALARCÓN, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs in these cases appeal the district court's dismissal with prejudice of their claims for violations of the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act, two chapters within the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA). The plaintiffs allege that Facebook, Inc., a social networking company, and Zynga Game Network, Inc., a social gaming company, disclosed confidential user information to third parties...

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