Cahill Litigation Team Prevails on Behalf of Clearview AI, Inc.
Date: 06/18/21
A Cahill litigation team prevailed on behalf of Clearview AI, Inc., its founders Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, and its General Counsel Thomas Mulcaire, in defeating plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction, which sought to enjoin defendants from using the biometric data of Illinois residents in Clearview’s facial recognition app. The proposed injunction had the potential to put Clearview out of business and was denied in its entirety by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, who held that plaintiffs did not sufficiently demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable harm. The win earned Cahill’s Floyd Abrams and Joel Kurtzberg runner-up mentions in The American Lawyer’s Litigators of the Week column.