Last week, an Illinois federal district court granted the defendant’s motion to stay in Stegmann v. PetSmart, No. 1:22-cv-01179 (N.D. Ill.). The case implicates the evolving law surrounding the scope of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) and a pending Illinois Supreme Court case that could provide an important defense to certain BIPA suits.
The PetSmart plaintiff filed a class action complaint against his former employer based on alleged violations of sections 15(a) and 15(b) of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). Specifically, he contends that the defendant used a technology that repeatedly collected his—and other employees’—“voiceprints.”
