hiQ Labs, Inc. v. Linkedin Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 HIQ LABS, INC., Case No. 17-cv-03301-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

v. MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM

NONDISPOSITIVE PRETRIAL ORDER

LINKEDIN CORPORATION, OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE Defendant. Docket No. 262

12 13 Currently pending before the Court is hiQ’s motion for relief from Judge Kim’s order of April 26, 2022. See Docket No. 256 (order). In that order, Judge Kim denied hiQ’s request that LinkedIn be compelled to produce documents related to LinkedIn’s conduct toward other competitive companies (such as monitoring or acquiring), including other data scrapers. Having considered the parties’ briefs, Judge Kim’s order, and the evidence of record, the Court hereby DENIES hiQ’s motion. “Rule 72(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows aggrieved parties to file timely objections to rulings of a magistrate judge in nondispositive matters. Such objections are sustained if the magistrate…