Facebook, Objector Tell 9th Circuit Privacy Class Plaintiffs Lacked Standing

Mealey's (June 3, 2019, 2:19 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In supplemental briefs filed May 29 at the direction of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Facebook Inc. and an objector to the underlying settlement of a class action over the social network’s now-discontinued practice of scanning users’ private messages (PMs), argue that subsequent U.S. Supreme Court rulings make it clear that the plaintiffs never properly established standing to bring their privacy claims against Facebook under Article III of the U.S. Constitution (Matthew Campbell, et al. v. Facebook Inc., et al., No. 17-16873, 9th Cir.)....