Zimmerman
Zimmerman v. Facebook, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN, et al., Case No. 19-cv-04591-VC
Plaintiffs,
ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR
v. FINAL JUDGMENT AND MOTION
FOR RECONSIDERATION
FACEBOOK, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 53 Defendants.
Zimmerman’s motion for final judgment and request to file an interlocutory appeal on his account-related claims is denied. Generally, courts should only enter final judgment on a subset of claims if those claims are sufficiently divisible from the remaining claims that the interlocutory appeal would not result in piecemeal litigation. See Jewel v. National Security Agency, 810 F.3d 622, 625, 627-28 (9th Cir. 2015). Zimmerman himself asserts that he cannot “reasonably prosecute [his] privacy-related claims separately from the permanent account revocation claims.” Dkt. No. 53 at 5, 22. And the Court gave Zimmerman the opportunity to pursue his account-related claims separately from his privacy related claims (at issue in the Facebook MDL), but Zimmerman’s amended complaint purporting to do this failed to distinguish between the two types of claims in any way. Zimmerman’s motion for reconsideration…