Facebook Biometric Case Halted Pending Supreme Court Appeal (1)

Facebook Inc. convinced the Ninth Circuit to stay a biometric privacy class action while it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh whether plaintiffs had the right to sue.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed its decision upholding a California federal district court ruling that plaintiffs had standing to sue under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. It upheld a U.S.District Court for the Northern District of California ruling that intangible harms, like the violation of a privacy right, are enough to bring such claims.

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