Mealey's (May 30, 2018, 11:59 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The same day that a California federal judge denied Facebook Inc.’s motion to stay proceedings in a suit over its alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 29 granted the social network’s emergency motion to stay trial court proceedings pending its appeal of a class certification ruling (Namesh Patel, et al. v. Facebook Inc., No. 18-80053, 9th Cir.)....