It's almost certainly true that they could republish the data without violating any law. That has nothing to do with whether they have the right to scrape the data from the website.
IE do not confuse their right to republish the data with the right to get it from a particular source in a particular way.
The line of cases you are citing is also about trespass to chattels, which is a pretty bad claim to make about website scraping (for the reasons the california supreme court set out in Intel vs Hamidi). It was mainly used back in the days when courts barely knew what websites were. Trespass to chattels may still get used when you can show actual harm caused by the scraping, but most claims nowadays would be around terms of use violations, which are a much more grey area (some courts have gone for it, some not).
It's almost certainly true that they could republish the data without violating any law. That has nothing to do with whether they have the right to scrape the data from the website.
IE do not confuse their right to republish the data with the right to get it from a particular source in a particular way.
The line of cases you are citing is also about trespass to chattels, which is a pretty bad claim to make about website scraping (for the reasons the california supreme court set out in Intel vs Hamidi). It was mainly used back in the days when courts barely knew what websites were. Trespass to chattels may still get used when you can show actual harm caused by the scraping, but most claims nowadays would be around terms of use violations, which are a much more grey area (some courts have gone for it, some not).