United Defeats Class Certification Bid in Genetic Privacy Suit

A former United Airlines Inc. job applicant isn’t a proper class action representative because her genetic-privacy claims are fundamentally different from those of other United job-seekers, a federal judge said.

Putative class representative Jacqueline Garrison argued in her motion for class certification that the central issue of the case was whether the airline’s consent form she was presented with during the application process solicited information protected under the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Monday.

But Garrison undermined that theory of the case during her deposition, when she testified that ...