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., Case No. 20-cv-08437-LB
Plaintiffs,
ORDER DISMISSING FIRST
v. AMENDED COMPLAINT
ANCESTRY.COM INC., et al., Re: ECF No. 33 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiffs are California residents who sued Ancestry.com — individually and on behalf of a putative California class — for using their decades-old yearbook records to solicit paying subscribers. The plaintiffs claim (1) misappropriation of their likenesses, in violation of California’s Right of Publicity Law, Cal. Civ. Code § 3344, (2) unlawful and unfair business practices, in violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200, (3) intrusion upon seclusion, in violation of California common law, and (4) unjust enrichment resulting from Ancestry’s selling their personal information. The court dismissed the first complaint for lack of…