District Court (Cal.) Says Aggregation of Small Business Plaintiffs is Neither the “General Public” Nor Consumers Entitled to Protection under B&P Code 17200
In TopDevz, LLC v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 20-cv-08324-SVK, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 145186, at *9 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 3, 2021), Judge Van Keulen dismissed with leave to amend a group of small businesses' challenge to LinkedIn's charges overstating the level of actual user engagement with ads placed on the LinkedIn platform in order to charge premium rates to advertisers. The… Read More