Shah
Vishal Shah, et al. v. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 VISHAL SHAH, et al., Case No. 25-cv-01018-EKL
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. TRANSFER
HILTON WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS Re: Dkt. No.
INC.,
11 Defendant.
12 This putative class action arises from a dispute regarding online tracking of personal data. Plaintiffs Vishal Shah, Jonathan Gabrielli, and Christine Wiley (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) sued Defendant Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. for causing third-party cookies and other similar tracking technologies to be placed on devices that accessed www.Hilton.com (“Website”), even after users opted out of tracking. See First Am. Compl. ¶¶ 1-2, 40 (“Compl.”). After nearly seven months of litigation, Plaintiffs’ counsel disclosed information sufficient for Defendant to determine that all three named Plaintiffs are members of the Hilton Honors Members Rewards Program (“Honors Program”), the terms of which provide that the “venue for all suits will be in the Eastern District of…