9th Circuit Requests Briefs On Standing In Argued Facebook Message-Scanning Suit

Mealey's (April 26, 2019, 1:16 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Three months after hearing oral arguments in an appeal of the approval of a privacy class action over Facebook Inc.’s now-discontinued practice of scanning users’ private messages (PMs), a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 23 directed the parties to submit supplemental briefs addressing whether the named plaintiffs had standing in light of two U.S. Supreme Court rulings (Matthew Campbell, et al. v. Facebook Inc., et al., No. 17-16873, 9th Cir.)....