7th Circuit:  Vending Machine Fingerprint Collection Row Belongs In Federal Court

Mealey's (May 6, 2020, 1:15 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Putative class claims for violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) via vending machines’ collection of users’ fingerprints sufficiently allege concrete and particularized invasions of personal rights to establish federal jurisdiction under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled May 5, reversing a trial court’s grant of the plaintiff’s motion to remand to state court (Christine Bryant v. Compass Group USA Inc., No. 20-1443, 7th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 14256)....