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February 24, 2021
On Monday in the Seventh Circuit, Clearview AI filed a motion asking the court to stay a mandate set to go into effect on Tuesday pending the filing and resolution of a petition for a writ of certiorari. The defendant explained that the “petition for certiorari will present substantial questions worthy of a grant of certiorari, and the balance of equities favors a stay.”
Clearview AI contended that “staying the mandate will prevent potentially wasteful state court litigation should certiorari be granted.” According to the motion, the appeal considered if the plaintiff, who alleged that the defendant sold access to her biometric information in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), “necessarily alleges an injury-in-fact for purposes of Article III standing.”