Mealey's (June 2, 2020, 2:20 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — An Illinois resident who filed the first of several biometric privacy suits over Clearview AI Inc.'s creation of a facial scan database failed in his bid to intervene in six putative class actions against the tech firm in New York federal court on May 29, as a New York federal judge deemed intervention in the noncertified putative class actions "not justified on either mandatory or permissive grounds" due to the movant's lack of cognizable interest (Mario Calderon, et al. v. Clearview AI Inc., No. 1:20-cv-01296, S.D. N.Y., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94926)....