Following up on our April 27, 2022 post, Data Scraping Deemed Legal in Certain Circumstances, the most significant data scraping lawsuit has finally come to an end. After six years of litigation, ...

Last month, LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 17-16783 (9 th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019).

hiQ is a company that "scrapes" public profiles from LinkedIn to package them for employers. This has drawn the Microsoft-owned company's ire. LinkedIn sent a cease-and-desist and got sued in return.

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