PANews reported on August 23 that U.S. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman filed a document in the Illinois District Court approving a motion filed by Coinbase to stay a lawsuit involving alleged violations of the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The motion requests to wait for the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. This court is hearing a case involving Nuance Communications providing voice recognition technology to Charles Schwab, and the ruling may impact the lawsuit against Coinbase.
The document approving Coinbase's motion states: 'The court believes that staying the proceedings will simplify the relevant issues, streamline the trial process, reduce the litigation burden on the court and the parties, and will not cause undue prejudice or strategic disadvantage to the plaintiffs.'