High Court Denies Facebook’s Class Standing Petition In Biometrics Privacy Suit

Mealey's (January 21, 2020, 11:58 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facebook Inc.’s interlocutory appeal of a class certification ruling in a privacy lawsuit over its face-tagging feature will not be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, which on Jan. 21 denied the social network’s petition for certiorari in which it raised questions about standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution (Facebook Inc. v. Nimesh Patel, et al., No. 19-706, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. LEXIS 538)....