Holland et al v. Yahoo! Inc.

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Case Number:

5:13-cv-04980

Court:

California Northern

Nature of Suit:

Other Statutory Actions

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

Lucy H. Koh

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  1. August 26, 2016

    Yahoo Email Privacy Deal OK'd With $4M In Attys' Fees

    Yahoo Inc. will stop scanning emails for advertising purposes before users have a chance to read them, among other changes, and pay $4 million in attorneys' fees to settle a privacy class action, according to a deal approved Thursday by a California federal judge.

  2. January 08, 2016

    Yahoo Changes To Email Scanning Would End Privacy Battle

    E-mail users who sued Yahoo Inc. for scanning their messages to target advertising to its users say a settlement proposed in their massive class action in California federal court on Thursday will require Yahoo to tweak its practices to comply with California law.

  3. October 20, 2015

    Yahoo Still On Hook For Scanning 'Stored' Emails, Class Says

    A class of email users accusing Yahoo Inc. of illegally scanning their messages for targeted advertising told a California federal judge on Monday that Yahoo's explanation that the scanning takes place on its storage servers and not "in transit" still violates California's Invasion of Privacy Act.

  4. September 21, 2015

    Yahoo's Email Scanning Falls Within The Law, Court Told

    Yahoo Inc. on Friday pushed a California federal judge to nix a class action over its allegedly unlawful practice of scanning emails to target advertising, arguing that eavesdropping statutes don't cover its conduct and that plaintiffs can't ask courts to regulate its processing infrastructure.

  5. May 27, 2015

    Massive Class Of Yahoo Email Users Wins Cert. In Privacy Suit

    A California federal judge on Tuesday certified a class including multitudes of email users nationwide in a privacy action that claims Yahoo Inc. violates federal law by scanning emails, and created a subclass for Californians raising state law claims.

  6. February 06, 2015

    Yahoo Faces Massive Class Cert. Bid In Email Spying Suit

    Yahoo Inc. faced a bid potentially massive bid for class certification Friday in a California federal suit claiming it illegally scanned emails to target advertising, with four plaintiffs asking to represent every non-subscriber who has received an email from Yahoo Mail's 75 million subscribers since October 2011.

  7. August 13, 2014

    Yahoo Gets Email Scanning Case Whittled Down

    A California federal judge on Tuesday trimmed a proposed class action accusing Yahoo Inc. of illegally scanning and analyzing emails to target advertising, throwing out claims that the company intercepted communications without proper consent while refusing to toss allegations it improperly divulged content data to third parties.

  8. April 08, 2014

    Yahoo Slams Email-Scan Case, Rejects Wiretap Act Claims

    Yahoo Inc. fired back Monday in a California federal court at a proposed class action accusing the company of illegally reading, copying and analyzing emails in order to make money on target advertising, contending that its terms of service eliminate any liability under the federal Wiretap Act.

  9. March 27, 2014

    Class Fights To Keep Yahoo Email-Scanning Case Alive

    Plaintiffs in a proposed class action accusing Yahoo Inc. of illegally reading, copying and analyzing emails in order to make money on targeted advertising asked a federal judge on Wednesday to reject the company's bid to evade the suit, saying the federal Wiretap Act applies to their claims.

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