Judge Dismisses UCL Claim From Tortured Chinese Activist’s Hacked Emails Lawsuit

Mealey's (April 5, 2022, 1:11 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on March 31 dismissed with prejudice a claim for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) brought by a Chinese pro-democracy activist against two Yahoo! Inc. successor entities and two former Yahoo executives, which the activist claimed profited by sharing his emails with Chinese officials and causing his imprisonment and the destruction of his assets, and dismissed with leave to amend his Alien Torts Statute (ATS) claim for torture....