Facebook Defends Appeal Of Biometric Class Certification Ruling To 9th Circuit

Mealey's (February 14, 2019, 2:06 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a Feb. 11 brief filed in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Facebook Inc. responds to a motion to dismiss its appeal of a trial court’s certification of a class suing it for violation of an Illinois biometric privacy law, disputing the plaintiffs’ assertion that a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling on the statute resolved the issues on appeal (In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, No. 18-15982, 9th Cir.)....