Class Action
Amer v. ElevenLabs
ActiveClass claims present
Amer, Marin, Rogers, Flowers, Dorcus, Lacour and Nassif v. Eleven Labs Inc.
Where it stands
Filed May 11, 2026 as one of nine parallel BIPA voice-AI class actions brought by Loevy + Loevy against ElevenLabs, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Adobe and Samsung. Named plaintiffs include former NBC Chicago journalists Carol Marin and Phil Rogers.
Note on this record
Newly filed as of May 2026 — no rulings on the pleadings yet. The 2024 SB 2979 amendment (740 ILCS 14/20, effective August 2, 2024) limits recovery to a single violation per person per collection method, which will materially constrain damages for post-amendment conduct; retroactivity remains contested. Case caption order of plaintiffs taken from the complaint; some press accounts spell the plaintiffs 'Lindsay Dorcus' and 'Alison Flores.'The record
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Eastern Division)
- Case number
- 1:26-cv-05437
- Filed
- 2026-05-11
- Defendants
- Eleven Labs Inc.
- Plaintiffs
- Putative class of Illinois journalists, voice actors, audiobook narrators and podcasters whose recorded voices were ingested into ElevenLabs' foundational voice models without notice or consent
- Technology at issue
- ElevenLabs text-to-speech and voice-cloning foundation models allegedly trained on scraped broadcast, podcast and audiobook recordings
- Relief sought
- BIPA statutory damages of $1,000 per negligent violation and $5,000 per intentional or reckless violation (740 ILCS 14/20), asserted per person across five separate subsections of 740 ILCS 14/15; plus actual damages, restitution and disgorgement, and injunctive relief requiring identification of training-data sources, destruction of unlawfully obtained voiceprints, and destruction or retraining of the foundation models. Amount in controversy pleaded above $5,000,000.
- Counsel of record
- Loevy + Loevy
Claims pleaded
Sources (3)
- Amer et al. v. Eleven Labs Inc. — Class Action Complaint, N.D. Ill. No. 1:26-cv-05437Loevy + Loevy · 2026-05-11
- Illinois lawsuits accuse tech giants of "stealing" voices of well-known journalists, voice actors to train AICBS News Chicago · 2026-05
- Illinois Journalists, Actors, and Vocal Artists File Class-Action Lawsuits Against Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Other Companies for Stealing Their VoicesLoevy + Loevy · 2026-05-14
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