A maker of workplace time clocks, which is facing a massive class action under Illinois biometric law, has asked a Chicago federal judge to pause the suit while two appellate panels address questions in two other cases that could affect the Kronos suit and other similar actions.
Judge Kendall says legal team was 'truly obstructionist' in delaying discovery process in discrimination and defamation lawsuit vs Gov. JB Pritzker and Pritzker's 2018 campaign organization.
A Cook County judge has ruled a lawsuit brought by the Cook County State's Attorney failed to show where Facebook guaranteed data security or how it intended to deceive its users
The Great Wolf waterpark resort chain has sued Zurich American for allegedly failing to provide millions of dollars' worth of coverage for the chain's lost income amid the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
The decision overturned a Lake County judge's ruling in favor of gun owners and Second Amendment rights groups, though it did still block the village from regulating "large capacity magazines."
Kronos Inc. says two Chicago class action firms are trying to use a lawsuit against them to force Kronos to turn over its customer list, to help them ID new companies to sue under Illinois' biometrics privacy law.
A Cook County judge said the state's Freedom of Information law should apply to the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates Brookfield Zoo, even though it is not a government agency.
A Chicago federal appeals court says Wisconsin power companies have too much at stake to block them from fighting environmental activists' lawsuit to block a transmission lines project.
Federal judge says timeclock vendors can bear the same responsibility as workers' actual employers to collect consent and provide notice before their customers' employees scan fingerprints when punching in and out.
Gov. Pritzker doesn't know enough about the alleged discrimination, and his schedule is too "demanding" to allow him to be questioned under oath, the judge said.
Plaintiffs say they have identified at least five Pritzker campaign workers who allegedly told then-candidate Pritzker of racial discrimination in his campaign and want the governor questioned under oath.
Lawyers for Pritzker's campaign say the plaintiffs haven't cooperated in scheduling and taking depositions and other discovery, and so most of them should be tossed from the action.
An insurance executive facing a $10 million bill for unpaid income taxes can sue his former financial advisors, but not the law firm that employed the lawyer who the executive said misled him into hiding $64 million in an illegal tax shelter.
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx had sued over alleged 2016 Cambridge Analytica data mining. But Facebook says the lawsuit can't be allowed to continue.
Nearly a year after Uber agreed to pay $148 million to settle claims with Illinois and all other U.S. states over a 2016 data breach, the ride hailing service is still in Cook County court, seeking to persuade a judge to pull to the curb the city of Chicago’s persistent attempts to make the company pony up millions more in fines under a city data breach ordinance.
Lawyers for Cook County are arguing the county can continue its lawsuit in Cook County court against Facebook, which alleges the company let user data be mined to aid President Donald Trump’s election campaign, because Facebook drew a bull's-eye on Illinois residents.
Saying to allow the legal action to continue would effectively allow internet companies to be sued virtually everywhere, at any time, Facebook has asked a Cook County judge to dismiss or at least place on hold a lawsuit brought by Cook County’s state’s attorney over claims the social media giant allowed user data to be mined by another firm to aid President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
