9th Circ. Backs Class Cert. In Classmates.com Name Use Case

By Elliot Weld ( September 25, 2026, 6:22 PM EDT) -- The Ninth Circuit has approved a lower court's certification of a class of Californians suing over their names appearing in the yearbooks platform Classmates.com, rejecting a number of challenges from the website's operator, including that the lead plaintiff couldn't adequately represent the class....

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