Plaintiffs lawyers pursuing a privacy class action lawsuit against Facebook Inc. are pointing to a recent decision by the Illinois Supreme Court to try to get their case back on course for trial.

Lawyers representing a class of Illinois Facebook users were scheduled to go to trial in July 2018 before U.S. District Judge James Donato on claims that the social media site’s “tag suggestions” feature violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The state law restricts how companies in Illinois collect and store biometric identifiers such as fingerprints and facial recognition data.

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