( January 28, 2026, 9:14 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California denied a website owner’s motion to certify for interlocutory appeal an October order declining dismissal of a putative class case alleging that the website’s third-party trackers that collect users’ data violate the California Invasion of Privacy Act’s (CIPA) pen register/trap-and-trace law, finding that “every federal court to tackle the CIPA applicability question has rejected” the website owner’s position that the pen register prohibition doesn’t apply and rejecting the defendant’s argument that the case presents a novel issue....