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BNSF to pay $75M to settle truckers' fingerprint scan class action; Lawyers could get $27M
The settlement would end the court fight in the first class action under the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act to go to trial. A federal judge last summer tossed out a $228 million jury award secured by plaintiffs. -
Lawsuit asks court to order Dolton to pay $33.5M verdict to families of men killed, injured in police chase crash
The lawsuit says the court could order the village to raise taxes to fund the judgment. They say such action is needed to address financial mismanagement in Dolton under Mayor Tiffany Henyard. -
Class action: SupplyBit sold securities allegedly disguised as crypto 'mining services agreements'
Cryptocurrency mining company SupplyBit has been hit with a class action from an investor who claimed the company broke Illinois securities law by allegedly surreptitiously selling him and others millions of dollars worth of unregistered securities and allegedly reneged on promises to pay investors what they were allegedly owed. -
BNSF, truck drivers in apparent deal to end biometrics court fight worth hundreds of millions of dollars
A judge had tossed out a $228M verdict vs BNSF Railway in July in a long-running court battle over claims BNSF had wrongly required truck drivers to scan hand prints when entering secure rail yards in Illinois -
City paid $117M to settle lawsuits in 2022; Loevy firm represented clients getting at least $42M of that total
According to city data,the firm of Loevy & Loevy has sued the city of Chicago at least 111 times since 2010, generating at least $32.9 million in fees in that span. The firm has typically represented people suing over alleged wrongful convictions or allegedly coerced confessions, and other alleged police misconduct -
BNSF: IL Supreme Court ruling means courts can choose not to order 'annihilative' payouts in fingerprint scan class actions
Lawyers for BNSF Railway are pushing to undo a $238 million verdict in favor of 45,000 truckers, who claim BNSF violated Illinois' biometrics privacy law by making them scan fingerprints to access rail yards. Plaintiffs, though, say the verdict should've been $807M -
Judge: Loevy firm, not its ex-partner Drury, gets to lead face scans class action vs Clearview
The ruling from a Chicago federal judge gives the edge to Chicago-based Loevy & Loevy in a tussle with its former attorney, Scott Drury, over who can lay claim to a potential massive payday as lead attorneys in a sprawling biometrics case against facial recognition tech firm Clearview A.I. -
BNSF asks judge to undo 'nine-figure windfall' in truckers' biometrics class action
Freight rail operator BNSF says the $238 million verdict violates the Constitution and federal law, as the plaintiffs admit 'they suffered no actual harm.' Plaintiffs, in turn, now seeking $800 million instead -
Ex-Loevy & Loevy lawyer says he deserves to be lead counsel in big money class action vs. Clearview over face scans
Attorney Scott Drury has pushed back against accusations he attempted to improperly push his former law firm, Loevy & Loevy, out of potentially millions of dollars in legal fees from a possible biometrics class action settlement with facial recognition tech firm Clearview AI. -
Loevy & Loevy asks judge to keep it as lead counsel in big money class action vs Clearview over face scans
Chicago firm Loevy & Loevy said its former attorney, Scott Drury, resigned and attempted to bring clients to his new firm, cutting his old firm out of any potential settlement deal with Clearview. Drury said he "strongly disputes" those claims -
Biometrics face scan class actions filed vs Walmart, Kohls, Best Buy, Home Depot, over involvement with Clearview
The lawsuits came after a federal judge said the retailers couldn't be added to a larger class action against Clearview over the sharing of face images "scraped" from online sources -
Judge OK's $92M deal to end class actions vs TikTok; objectors say attorneys got too much money
Complaint alleged improper collection, storage of user biometric data -
Walmart, Home Depot, other retailers could be roped into massive class action vs Clearview over face scrapes
Tech firm Clearview has opposed the move to add more defendants, saying it is "bad faith ... transparent gamesmanship" by plaintiffs' lawyers -
Clearview mostly whiffs on try to toss massive biometrics class action over online 'face scraping'
Chicago federal judge rejects arguments tech firm's data scraping, facial database didn't break privacy laws -
Despite some dismissals, Macy's still facing privacy lawsuits for use of facial recognition database
Federal judge lets biometrics privacy claims survive retailer's motion to remove itself from a larger action targeting facial recognition tech provider Clearview AI and a collection of its clients -
Two objectors fail to hold up $92M settlement of TikTok privacy class actions
A Chicago federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $92 million settlement of a lawsuit that accuses TikTok of breaking privacy laws, overriding objections the payout falls short and users are still not fully protected. -
CTA, CPD allowed to keep a lid on video of attempted murder at L subway platform
Appellate panel rules district judge wrong to order release of security footage showing a man pushing another passenger onto tracks at Blue Line Washington station in 2017. -
Cops, ex-prosecutor: Wrongful prosection suit must end, because Foxx merely dropped '94 rape, murder case vs two men
A group of Chicago cops and a former Cook County ASA say they were left to face lawsuits after State's Attorney Kim Foxx opted not to contest innocence claims from two who had confessed to a brutal 1994 rape and murder, despite her deputies' continued belief the two men were guilty. -
Judge: Sheriff's office not on hook to pay woman shot by her ex-fiance, a Cook County correctional officer, in attempted murder-suicide
Former Cook County correctional officer Erika Aguirre had attempted to shoot to death her ex-fiance, Deisy Jaimes, as well as Jaimes' father, in an attempted murder-suicide. Jaimes' family claimed the county should pay because of a county policy they claimed required Aguirre to possess a gun. -
Judge refuses to OK $1.1M TikTok data collection settlement, says must wait for more claims, hearings
Plaintiffs didn't update settlement website with new deadlines after COVID delayed civil proceedings