Mealey's (October 18, 2019, 1:32 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 18 denied a motion by Facebook Inc. for rehearing en banc of a panel ruling that affirmed a trial court’s decision to certify a class that is suing the social network under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) for its facial recognition technology that identifies people in posted photographs (Nimesh Patel, et al. v. Facebook Inc., No. 18-15982, 9th Cir.)....