Chegg Denied Preliminary Injunction in Suit Over Stolen Answers

Online learning platform Chegg Inc. can’t seize the Internet domain of Homeworkify.net, a competitor it alleges provided free homework answers to students that it had stolen from Chegg, a federal court ruled.

Chegg failed to demonstrate it would suffer irreparable harm absent a preliminary injunction against Homeworkify, a necessary threshold finding before an injunction may be granted, Judge Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Monday.

Breyer also denied Chegg’s request to serve Homeworkify by email in the absence of a showing that the person or entity behind it was foreign.

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