LinkedIn Says Analytics Company In Scraping Battle Is Out Of Business 09/15/2021 – MediaPost

by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, 4 hours ago LinkedIn has told a federal judge that analytics company hiQ Labs, which has been fighting a high-profile battle against LinkedIn since 2017 over its scraping policies, actually went out of business three years ago.In those three years, the companies have taken their fight over scraping to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld an injunction that prohibited LinkedIn from blocking hiQ, and the U.S. Supreme Court, which returned the case to the 9th Circuit for further consideration. Neither of those courts appeared to have been notified that hiQ allegedly ceased operations.“LinkedIn learned in the past few weeks that hiQ went out of business three years ago,” the Microsoft-owned platform wrote Friday in papers urging U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen in the Northern District of California to lift the order that prohibits LinkedIn from blocking access by hiQ.advertisementadvertisement“hiQ shuttering its operations is precisely the kind of changed circumstance that eliminates the risk of likely irreparable harm and compels dissolution of the injunction,” LinkedIn writes.A LinkedIn lawyer elaborated in court papers that an hiQ attorney disclosed on August 20 of this year that the company had ceased operating in August or September of…
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