November 07, 2022
An upcoming trial to address breach of contract claims LinkedIn is pursuing against defunct recruiting startup hiQ will hinge on whether the professional social media platform waived its right to pursue claims by ignoring public statements hiQ made indicating it was violating LinkedIn rules by scraping personal data from users' profiles.
September 29, 2022
LinkedIn urged a California federal judge Thursday to grant it summary judgment in a recruiting startup's unfair competition lawsuit over access to public information on its website, while the startup countered that LinkedIn spied on it for years before leading it and other competitors "down the path to take them out."
September 10, 2020
A California federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the bulk of an employment-focused tech startup's lawsuit against LinkedIn Inc., ruling the company failed to define the market in which LinkedIn was allegedly holding a monopoly.
August 20, 2020
LinkedIn Inc. urged a California federal court Thursday to throw out hiQ's antitrust lawsuit accusing the social media company of holding a monopoly over the job data market, arguing that LinkedIn has competitors and the startup has "conveniently gerrymandered" its market definition for litigation.
August 18, 2020
LinkedIn Inc. has urged a California federal court to consider a recent Ninth Circuit decision in a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Qualcomm, saying the ruling backs up the professional networking site's argument that it has no duty to let rival startup hiQ use automated bots to scrape its data.
February 23, 2018
A California federal judge on Thursday granted data company 3taps Inc.'s bid to relate its suit seeking clearance to scrape information from LinkedIn Inc.'s public profiles to another pending suit against the professional networking site, saying there was "good cause" to sign off on the request.
February 21, 2018
Data company 3taps told a California federal court Tuesday that its suit seeking clearance to scrape data from LinkedIn's public profiles should not be related to a previously decided matter involving Craigslist, saying its action should instead be related to another pending suit against the professional networking site.
August 14, 2017
LinkedIn Corp. will have to let a job-search startup keep scraping information off the social media site’s public profiles, a California federal judge ruled Monday after finding the startup had raised “serious questions” about LinkedIn’s attempt to block it.
July 27, 2017
Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe, arguing on behalf of a job-search start-up, told a California federal judge Thursday that LinkedIn has violated the company's First Amendment rights by prohibiting it from accessing public user data, arguing that letting LinkedIn choose who can access the site will have grave constitutional consequences.
June 08, 2017
An employment-focused technology startup asked a California federal court to find it wasn't breaking copyright laws by scraping public data from LinkedIn users, saying Wednesday the established social networking company was threatening the startup with legal action to keep it from becoming a competitor.