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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Mar. 16, 2018

LinkedIn urges 9th Circuit to vacate injunction prohibiting technology aimed at blocking scraping bots

Attorneys representing LinkedIn Corp. and a data analytics company that aggregates information from the networking site’s public pages differed sharply on the bounds of a hotly debated federal computer access law before a three judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday.

Attorneys representing LinkedIn Corp. and a data analytics company that aggregates information from the networking site differed sharply on the bounds of a hotly debated federal computer access law before a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday.

But the panel — reviewing a preliminary injunction requiring LinkedIn to take down technology aimed at preventing hiQ Labs Inc. from collecting public information made avai...

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