BRIDGES v. BLACKSTONE, INC.

No. 22-2486.

66 F.4th 687 (2023)

Carolyn BRIDGES and Raymond Cunningham, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BLACKSTONE, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 1, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kyle Alan Shamberg , Attorney, Lynch Carpenter LLP, Chicago, IL, Gregory L. Shevlin , Attorney, Cook, Bartholomew, Shevlin, Cook & Jones, LLP, Belleville, IL, Jonathan Marc Jagher , Attorney, Freed Kanner London & Millen, LLC, Conshohocken, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Martin Louis Roth , Amelia Bailey , Alyssa Kalisky , Attorneys, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Hamilton, Scudder, and Pryor, Circuit Judges.


Carolyn Bridges and Raymond Cunningham provided their DNA to Ancestry.com, the largest genealogy company in the world. A few years later, Blackstone, Inc. acquired Ancestry in a deal reportedly worth $4.7 billion. Bridges and Cunningham filed this putative class action against Blackstone, alleging that the acquisition resulted...

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