COOK COUNTY RECORD

Recent News About Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd Llp

• 

  Supreme Court slams door on Facebook's bid to undo photo tagging class action

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Wednesday, Jan 22, 2020 @ 4:22pm

  The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Facebook’s attempt to untag itself from a class action lawsuit worth potentially billions of dollars under Illinois’ biometric information privacy law.

  ---

• 

  Facebook: SCOTUS should delete biometrics class action, says plaintiffs weren't harmed by photo tagging system

  By Dan Churney | Wednesday, Dec 11, 2019 @ 4:25pm

  Facebook wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appellate court's ruling allowing a class action worth potentially billions of dollars to continue under an Illinois biometrics privacy law, as the company argues plaintiffs weren't harmed and the case would be too sprawling.

  ---