Xianhua
Xianhua v. Oath Holdings, Inc. f/k/a/Yahoo! Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 NING XIANHUA, Case No. 20-cv-06185-HSG
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v. DENYING IN PART THE MOTION TO
DISMISS
OATH HOLDINGS, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 46 Defendants.
12 This is a human rights lawsuit between Plaintiff Ning Xianhua, a Chinese pro-democracy activist, and Defendants Oath Holdings, Inc., Altaba, Inc., Terry Semel, and Jerry Yang, successors in interest and former executives of Yahoo! Inc. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants disclosed his confidential Yahoo! email communications to the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), which used that information to convict and torture him. Plaintiff asserts three claims: violations of (1) the Law of Nations under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”); (2) the Torture Victims Protection Act (“TVPA”); and (3) the California Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”). Now before the Court is Defendants’ motion to dismiss, which has been fully briefed. See Dkt. Nos. 46 (“Mot.”), 52 (“Opp.”), and…