Recently, a federal judge in Illinois commanded Samsung to arbitrate 806 Samsung Galaxy data complaints.
The complaints appear against the Korean giants, which claim that Samsung robbed biometric data through the selfies taken by Galaxy phone users, in violation of the BIPA (Biometric Information Privacy Act) of Illinois.
Samsung took a stand for itself and argued that BIPA does not apply to the Gallery App. Samsung Galaxy users put a strain on giving a verdict on their claims that the Korean brand was breaking the law. Despite all this, Samsung declined, as per a lawsuit the users later filed.
While purchasing the phones and attempting arbitration, Samsung Galaxy data users signed mediatorship (arbitration) agreements, but the lawsuit stated that Samsung apparently declined to pay its portion of the arbitration fees.
The U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber mentioned in his Samsung Galaxy Data ruling that “Samsung merely attacks the sufficiency of petitioners’ pleading and flips the evidentiary burden on its head, challenging petitioners’ pleading as ‘bare’ and ‘conclusory.”
Leinenweber carried out 240 petitioners from the case who overlapped with a similar case in the same court involving 50,000 Samsung Galaxy smartphone users. He also writes that “after nearly two years of motion practice, it is time for petitioners to have their claims arbitrated.”
The complainant is represented by Stuart A. Davidson, Mark Dearman, Lindsey H. Taylor, and Alexander C. Cohen of Robbins Geller Rudman & Down LLP, along with Gary M. Klinger and Jonathan B. Cohen of Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillion Grossman PLLC.
