IN RE GOOGLE INC. STREET VIEW ELECTRONIC COMMC'N

No. 20-15616.

21 F.4th 1102 (2021)

IN RE GOOGLE INC. STREET VIEW ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS LITIGATION. Benjamin Joffe; Lilla Marigza; Rick Benitti; Bertha Davis; Jason Taylor; Eric Myhre; John E. Redstone; Matthew Berlage; Patrick Keyes; Karl H. Schulz; James Fairbanks; Aaron Linsky; Dean M. Bastilla; Vicki Van Valin; Jeffrey Colman; Russell Carter; Stephanie Carter; Jennifer Locsin, Plaintiffs-Appellees, David Lowery, Objector-Appellant, v. Google, Inc., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 27, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam E. Schulman (argued) and Theodore H. Frank , Hamilton Lincoln Law Center, Center for Class Action Fairness, Washington, D.C., for Objector-Appellant.

Daniel A. Small (argued) and Robert W. Cobbs , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth L. Cabraser , Michael W. Sobol , and Melissa Gardner , Leiff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, San Francisco, California; Jeffrey L. Kodroff , John A. Macoretta , and Mary Ann Geppert , Spector Roseman & Kodroff P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Brian M. Willen (argued) and Eli B. Richlin , Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, New York, New York; David H. Kramer , Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, California; Paul N. Harold , Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellee.

Kate B. Sawyer (argued), Assistant Solicitor General; Keena Patel , Assistant Attorney General; Oramel H. Skinner , Solicitor General; Mark Brnovich , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Phoenix, Arizona; Steve Marshall , Attorney General, State of Alabama; Kevin G. Clarkson , Attorney General, State of Alaska; Leslie Rutledge , Attorney General, State of Arkansas; Lawrence G. Wasden , Attorney General, State of Idaho; Curtis T. Hill Jr. , Attorney General, State of Indiana; Derek Schmidt , Attorney General, State of Kansas; Jeff Landry , Attorney General, State of Louisiana; Eric Schmitt , Attorney General, State of Missouri; Aaron D. Ford , Attorney General, State of Nevada; Wayne Stenehjem , Attorney General, State of North Dakota; Dave Yost , Attorney General, State of Ohio; Mike Hunter , Attorney General, State of Oklahoma; for Amici Curiae Thirteen Attorneys General for the States of Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

Ellen Bronchetti and Ron Holland , McDermott Will & Emery LLP; San Francisco, California; Wilber H. Boies and Timothy M. Kennedy , McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Chicago, Illinois; for Amici Curiae Legal Aid Organizations.

Stuart T. Rossman , National Consumer Law Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Michael Landis , Center for Public Interest Research, Denver, Colorado; for Amici Curiae United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and National Consumer Law Center.

Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Morgan Christen, and Bridget S. Bade, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

In this consolidated class action lawsuit, plaintiffs alleged, on behalf of an estimated sixty million people, that Google illegally collected their Wi-Fi data through its Street View program. After a decade of litigation, including a complex, three-year forensic investigation to confirm the standing of the...

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