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Cook County or federal court? Cleaview to ask SCOTUS for final answer on right court for IL biometrics class actions
Facial scanning tech firm Clearview says it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to unravel a thorny tangle of clashing decisions on which courts have jurisdiction over class actions brought under Illinois' biometrics privacy law. And big money could ride on the answer. -
Appeals panel: Narrowed IL biometrics lawsuit vs Clearview can stay in Cook County court, escape federal jurisdiction
The class action lawsuit accused Clearview AI of failing to abide by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act when it scraped photos posted online. The plaintiffs intentionally manipulated their claims to keep their lawsuit in Cook County court, where they do not need to claim any actual injuries from Clearview's actions to sue the company under state law.