SANCHEZ v. LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSP.

No. 21-55285.

39 F.4th 548 (2022)

Justin SANCHEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; City of Los Angeles, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 23, 2022.

Amended July 8, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mohammad Tajsar (argued), ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Jacob A. Snow , ACLU Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Jennifer Lynch and Hannah Zhao , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California; Douglas E. Mirell and Timothy J. Toohey , Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jonathan H. Eisenman (argued) and Jeffrey L. Goss , Deputy City Attorneys; Blithe S. Bock , Managing Assistant City Attorney; Scott Marcus , Chief Assistant City Attorney; Kathleen A. Kenealy , Chief Deputy City Attorney; Michael N. Feuer , City Attorney; Office of the City Attorney, Los Angeles, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Kendra K. Albert and Mason A. Kortz , Cyberlaw Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Amici Curiae Seven Data Privacy and Urban Planning Experts.

Brian E. Klein and Melissa A. Meister , Waymaker LLP, Los Angeles, California; Samir Jain and Gregory T. Nojeim , Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, D.C.; Alan Buter , Megan Iorio , and Melodi Dincer , Electronic Privacy and Information Center; for Amici Curiae Center for Democracy & Technology, and Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Jordan R. Jaffe , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Kevin Webb. Alana H. Rotter and Nadia A. Sarkis , Greines Martin Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Open Mobility Foundation.

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges, and Lee H. Rosenthal, District Judge.


ORDER

The opinion is amended as follows:

1. At opinion page 559, replace <We decline the invitation to conclude that LADOT's collection of anonymous data about traffic movements is somehow rendered a search because it may be used in the future (in connection with other non-private material) to reveal an individual's previous locations. Even accepting Sanchez's contention that anonymous MDS data can be used in the future to draw inferences about who was...

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