Brandon Hodges v. Comcast Cable Communications

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BRANDON HODGES, No. 19-16483 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 4:18-cv-01829-

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COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS,

LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, OPINION Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 1, 2020 Portland, Oregon

Filed September 10, 2021

Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Daniel P. Collins, and Lawrence VanDyke, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Collins; Dissent by Judge Berzon SUMMARY *

Arbitration

The panel reversed the district court’s order denying Comcast Cable Communications, LLC’s motion to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act of the claims asserted against it by former cable subscriber Brandon Hodges, and remanded with instructions to grant the motion.

Hodges brought a putative class action challenging certain of Comcast’s privacy and data-collection practices and seeking a variety of monetary and equitable remedies. Comcast…