Recent N.D. Ill. Ruling Upholds Common Interest Doctrine Over Communications Between Biometric Technology Vendors and Customers
In a welcome win for defendants litigating claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), earlier this month a Northern District of Illinois magistrate judge denied a plaintiff’s motion to compel communications between defendant Union Pacific Railroad Company (“Union Pacific”) and the vendors that provided it with fingerprint-activated security gates. Fleury v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., No. 20 C 390, 2024 WL 1620613, at *4-6 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 15, 2024). In so doing, the court implicitly affirmed that, in a BIPA lawsuit, the common interest doctrine presumptively protects the...