Patrick Calhoun v. Google LLC

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PATRICK CALHOUN; ELAINE No. 22-16993

CRESPO; MICHAEL HENRY;

CORNICE WILSON; RODNEY D.C. No. 4:20-cv-

JOHNSON; CLAUDIA KINDLER, 05146-YGR

Plaintiffs-Appellants,

OPINION

v.

GOOGLE, LLC,

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 19, 2024 San Francisco, California

Filed August 20, 2024

Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR., MARK J. BENNETT, and ANTHONY D. JOHNSTONE, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. CALHOUN V. GOOGLE, LLC

SUMMARY *

Data Collection

The panel reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Google, LLC, in a class action alleging that the company surreptitiously collected users’ data in violation of various state and federal laws, and remanded for further proceedings. Plaintiffs are a group of Google Chrome users who chose not to sync their Chrome browsers with their Google accounts while browsing the web. As they allege in their complaint,…