CAMPBELL v. FACEBOOK, INC.

No. 17-16873.

951 F.3d 1106 (2020)

Matthew CAMPBELL; Michael Hurley, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FACEBOOK, INC., Defendant-Appellee, v. Anna W. St. John, Objector-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Vacated June 4, 2019.

Resubmitted March 3, 2020 San Francisco, California.

Filed March 3, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam Ezra Schulman (argued), Anna St. John , and Theodore H. Frank , Center for Class Action Fairness, Washington, D.C.; for Objector-Appellant.

Hank Bates (argued), Allen Carney , and David Slade , Carney Bates & Pulliam PLLC, Little Rock, Arkansas; Michael W. Sobol , David T. Rudolph , and Melissa Gardner , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, San Francisco, California; Rachel Geman and Nicholas Diamand , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, New York, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Christopher Chorba (argued), Joshua A. Jessen , Ashley M. Rogers , and Ryan S. Appleby , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant-Appellee.

Marc Rotenberg , Alan Butler , and Sam Lester , Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Richard R. Clifton, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Objecting class member Anna St. John ("Objector") appeals from the district court's approval of a settlement between Facebook and a nationwide class of its users who alleged that Facebook routinely captured, read, and used for several purposes the website links included in users' private messages without...

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