HIQ LABS, INC. v. LINKEDIN CORP.

No. 17-16783.

938 F.3d 985 (2019)

HIQ LABS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LINKEDIN CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 9, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald B. Verrilli Jr. (argued) and Chad I. Golder , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jonathan H. Blavin , Rosemarie T. Ring , Nicholas D. Fram , and Elia Herrera , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, California; E. Joshua Rosenkranz , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Eric A. Shumsky , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, D.C.; Brian P. Goldman , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellant.

C. Brandon Wisoff (argued), Deepak Gupta , Jeffrey G. Lau , and Rebecca H. Stephens , Farella Braun & Martel LLP, San Francisco, California; Aaron M. Panner , Gregory G. Rapawy , and T. Dietrich Hill , Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Laurence H. Tribe , Cambridge, Massachusetts; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Nicholas J. Boyle , John S. Williams , and Eric J. Hamilton , Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae CoStar Group Inc.

Perry J. Viscounty , Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, California; Gregory G. Garre , Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Craigslist Inc.

Marc Rotenberg and Alan Butler , Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Thomas V. Christopher , Law Offices of Thomas V. Christopher, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae 3taps Inc.

Jamie Williams , Corynne McSherry , Cindy Cohn , and Nathan Cardozo , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, DuckDuckGo, and Internet Archive.

Kenneth L. Wilton and James M. Harris , Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Los Angeles, California; Carrie P. Price , Seyfarth Shaw LLP, San Francisco, California; for Amicus Curiae Scraping Hub Ltd.

Concurrence by Judge Wallace.


OPINION

May LinkedIn, the professional networking website, prevent a competitor, hiQ, from collecting and using information that LinkedIn users have shared on their public profiles, available for viewing by anyone with a web browser? HiQ, a data analytics company, obtained a preliminary injunction forbidding LinkedIn...

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