9th Circuit Again Affirms Injunction Against LinkedIn In Data-Scraping Suit

Mealey's (April 19, 2022, 10:33 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 18 affirmed for a second time a preliminary injunction preventing LinkedIn Corp. from blocking a data analytics firm’s access to, and scraping of, its users’ publicly available information, finding that “serious questions” exist about whether the professional network operator properly invoked the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to preempt the analytics firm’s tortious interference claim....