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In Re: Clearview AI, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation
Case Number:
1:21-cv-00135
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action
Judge:
Honorable Sharon Johnson Coleman
Firms
- Bertrand Fox
- Blank Rome
- BraunHagey & Borden
- Bursor & Fisher
- Cahill Gordon
- Carpenter Rothans
- DiCello Levitt
- Freed Kanner
- Gibbs Law Group
- Haeggquist & Eck
- Hausfeld LLP
- Jenner & Block
- Kantrowitz Goldhamer
- Loevy & Loevy
- Lynch Carpenter
- Lynch Thompson
- Massey & Gail
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Scott&Scott
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Taft Stettinius
- Tor Ekeland Law
- Webster Book LLP
Companies
- Albertsons Cos. Inc.
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
- AT&T Inc.
- Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Kohl's Corp.
- Macy's Inc.
- Walmart Inc.
Sectors & Industries:
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April 24, 2023
Clearview Fights Sanctions Bid In Photo Privacy MDL
Clearview AI has urged an Illinois federal judge not to impose sanctions over its allegedly belated document turnover in multidistrict litigation targeting the company's photo-scraping practices, saying the plaintiffs are complaining about "ordinary discovery disputes."
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November 28, 2022
Loevy & Loevy, Not Ex-Atty, Will Lead Clearview BIPA MDL
An Illinois federal judge has clarified that she wants Loevy & Loevy to lead multidistrict biometric privacy litigation against Clearview AI, resolving a dispute that pitted the firm against one of its former attorneys who signed up the named plaintiffs as clients at his new practice.
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November 02, 2022
Ill. Atty Says Ex-Firm 'Failed Its Audition' To Lead BIPA MDL
An attorney representing plaintiffs in multidistrict biometric privacy litigation against Clearview AI urged an Illinois federal judge to reject his former firm's bid to remain class counsel, saying he has spearheaded the case from the beginning and accusing the firm of making false claims about his character and intent.
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October 25, 2022
Firm Urges Denial Of Ex-Atty's 'Power Grab' In Clearview Suit
The plaintiffs firm behind a landmark Illinois biometric privacy verdict is accusing one of its former attorneys of trying to get his ex-firm removed as class counsel in a similar case against Clearview AI, saying he is engaging in an "ill-conceived power grab" after resigning to start his own practice.
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August 11, 2022
Plaintiffs Can't Add More Retailers To Clearview BIPA Suit
An Illinois federal judge Wednesday refused to allow plaintiffs pursuing multidistrict biometric privacy litigation against Clearview AI to add AT&T, Kohl's, Best Buy, Albertsons, Walmart and Home Depot as defendants in a second amended complaint, saying they waited too long to bring those Clearview clients into the case.
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July 26, 2022
Judge Won't Revisit Denied Dismissal Of Clearview BIPA Suit
An Illinois federal judge said Tuesday that she wouldn't reconsider her February ruling that facial recognition technology company Clearview AI must face multidistrict litigation claims that it unlawfully collected biometric information from photos on the internet.
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March 18, 2022
Macy's Can't Escape Violation Claims In Data Privacy MDL
An Illinois federal judge on Friday denied Macy's bid asking the Seventh Circuit to review her decision upholding claims the department store giant violated Illinois' biometric privacy law, saying Macy's distorted "the court's application of the law to the facts."
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March 15, 2022
Clearview Asserts Its Facial Data Photo Scrapes Are Legal
Locked in a multidistrict battle over alleged biometric privacy violations, Clearview AI answered consumers' claims Monday by arguing the company isn't acting illegally by scraping the internet for public photos for its facial recognition database and that it should be exempt from Illinois' biometric privacy laws as a government contractor.
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March 10, 2022
Consumers Blast Macy's Early Appeal Bid In Data Privacy MDL
Consumers locked in multidistrict litigation over Clearview AI's facial recognition technology and companies that use it urged a federal judge Wednesday to reject Macy's bid to take a "proverbial second bite of the apple" in its effort to ditch Illinois residents' biometric privacy claims.
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February 15, 2022
MDL Judge Rejects Clearview's 1st Amendment Defense
An Illinois federal judge ruled Monday that facial recognition technology company Clearview AI does not have a First Amendment right to dodge multidistrict litigation claims that it unlawfully collected biometric information from photos on the internet.