WALLRICH v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AM.

No. 23-2842.

106 F.4th 609 (2024)

Paula WALLRICH, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INCORPORATED and Samsung Electronics Company, Limited, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 1, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Gardner, Melissa H. Nafash, Shannon K. Tully, Jonathan D. Waisnor, Attorneys, Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, New York, NY, Deepak Gupta, Attorney, Gupta Wessler LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Paula Wallrich, Danielle Jones, Grant Grinnell, Jeffrey Burton, Rhonda McCallum.

Kyser Blakely, Shay Dvoretzky, Parker Andrew Rider-Longmaid, Attorneys, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC, Colm P. McInerney, Meredith C. Slawe, Michael Wayne McTigue, Jr., Jeremy Patashnik, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, Kurt Hemr, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Boston, MA, Randall Edwards, Attorney, O'melveny & Myers LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellants Samsung Electronics America, Incorporated, Samsung Electronics Company, Limited.

Andrew John Pincus, Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC for Amici Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Consumer Technology Association, National Retail Federation, American Bankers Association, Restaurant Law Center.

Matthew Allen Fitzgerald, Attorney, McGuirewoods LLP, Richmond, VA, for Amicus Curiae Retail Litigation Center, Inc.

Daniel Woofter, Attorney, Goldstein, Russell & Woofter LLC, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett.

Scott L. Nelson, Attorney, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Public Citizen, Incorporated.

Shelby Hannah Leighton, Attorney, Public Justice, Washington, DC, Amici Curiae, Public Justice, American Association for Justice, National Consumer Law Center, Incorporated, Woodstock Institute, Public Investors Advocate Bar Association.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Easterbrook and Kirsch, Circuit Judges.


Paula Wallrich and several thousand other consumers filed arbitration claims before the American Arbitration Association alleging that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc., through their electronic devices, unlawfully collect and store sensitive biometric data in violation of Illinois law. Samsung...

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