No 9th Circuit rehearing in Amazon-Perplexity case

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit declined Amazon’s motion to rehear, en banc, its decision to vacate a district court order that enjoined Perplexity from sending its Comet AI Assistant “into password-protected areas of the Amazon store.” The court reports that not one judge “requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter.” In August, the court found that Amazon is not likely to succeed in showing that Perplexity violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act.Read the ruling here.Read our recent coverage of this dispute here.Subscribe to our free newslettersOur weekly newsletter Closing Arguments offers the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world, while the monthly Under the Lights dishes the legal dirt from Hollywood, sports, Big Tech and the arts.Additional Reads