Mealey's (December 17, 2019, 8:46 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the heels of the respondents’ filing of a waiver of right to respond to Facebook Inc.’s petition for certiorari, the social network received support for its petition in the form of a Dec. 13 amicus curiae brief from Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), which argues that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals “mangled its historical analysis” of standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution in affirming the certification of a class suing Facebook for violation of an Illinois biometrics privacy law via its social network face-tagging feature without requiring a concrete injury (Facebook Inc. v. Nimesh Patel, et al., No. 19-706, U.S. Sup.)....