Callahan
Callahan v. Ancestry.com Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division MEREDITH CALLAHAN, et al., on behalf Case No. 20-cv-08437-LB of themselves and all others similarly situated, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
DISMISS AND DENYING MOTION TO
Plaintiffs, STRIKE. v. Re: ECF No.
ANCESTRY.COM INC., et al., Defendants.
INTRODUCTION The plaintiffs are California residents who object to Ancestry.com’s inclusion of their decades- old yearbook photographs and information in Ancestry’s Yearbook Database. They sued Ancestry — individually and on behalf of a putative California class — for using their information to solicit paying subscribers, claiming (1) a violation of their right of publicity under Cal. Civ. Code § 3344, (2) unlawful and unfair business practices, in violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL), Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200, (3) intrusion upon seclusion, in violation of…