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Saturday, March 15, 2025

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Jewel-Osco OKs $1.6M deal to end Osco pharmacists' fingerprint scans biometrics class action

By Jonathan Bilyk |
About 1,600 Osco pharmacy workers could get $977 each from the settlement, after Jewel-Osco failed to persuade judges the IL biometrics law was unconstitutional

Cook County primary voters pick nominees for 27 Cook County Circuit, subcircuit judge posts

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Results are preliminary, pending final tallies posted by Cook County and Chicago election authorities

Raines-Welch, wife of IL House Speaker, poised to win Cook County judgeship

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Unofficial preliminary vote results indicate ShawnTe Raines-Welch, wife of Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, is in the lead for a seat on Cook County's Fourth Judicial Subcircuit court

Openly progressive Dem judge, ex-Lake County Sheriff appear poised for election battle for possible control of IL Supreme Court

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Lake County Judge Elizabeth Rochford, backed by powerful Illinois Democrats, cruised to easy win in the Democratic primary for Illinois' Second Judicial District seat on the state Supreme Court. Ex-Lake Co. Sheriff Mark Curran held a narrow vote lead over Lake County Judge Daniel Shanes in the Republican primary contest

Class action says McDonald's customers getting double charged for food ordered through the app

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The lawsuit claims the McDonald's app is "poorly integrated," allegedly resulting in customers having to pay for their food in the restaurant, after allegedly paying for it in the app

Sterigenics plaintiffs ask IL Supreme Court to step in to upend Cook judge's rulings

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The plaintiffs call Cook County judge's decisions 'absurd and antithetical to ... prompt justice,' and denial of their clients' rights to prompt trials

Yarbrough: Time for feds oversight of Cook Clerk's office to end; Court monitors focusing on details to keep getting paid

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Yarbrough says compliance administrators appointed by the court to ensure she obeys federal court decrees are trying to find reasons to keep those decrees in place to ensure they continue to get paid

Class action: T-Mobile, Sprint owe money to customers of AT&T, Verizon because merger raised cell phone costs

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The lawsuit asserted the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint violated antitrust laws and led only to higher prices for all telecom customers amid a less competitive marketplace.

IL Dems seek to defend vote by mail law; Dem voters will be 'disenfranchised' if votes not counted 2 weeks after Election Day

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A group of Republicans have sued the state, saying a state law requiring mail-in votes to be counted up to 14 days after Election Day, conflicts with federal law.

Sterigenics plaintiffs to ask IL Supreme Court to step into dispute over how looming trial will proceed

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Hundreds of lawsuits are pending, claiming EtO emissions from Sterigenics caused cancer in Willowbrook. The first trial is scheduled to begin next month

Lawsuit: Cook County sheriff, chief judge liable for woman's death at hand of man on electronic monitoring

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The lawsuit accuses Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans of placing accused violent criminal Dominiko Johnson on electronic home monitoring, but allowing him to travel to the home of girlfriend Shanate Guy, who he allegedly shot to death

Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Kanne dies; Served on federal appeals court for 35 years

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Kanne, regarded as a conservative originalist, was appointed to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan

Cook County still collecting unconstitutional gun, ammo sales taxes; Refunds owed, class action says

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A new class action lawsuit is asking the courts to step in again and declare, once and for all, that Cook County has unconstitutionally levied taxes on the sale of firearms and ammunition, and give gun and ammo buyers refunds for taxes they've paid for nearly a decade

Laborer who fell through roof at former Cineplex Odeon reaches $4.8M deal to settle lawsuit

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The settlement was announced by the laborer's attorneys with the firm of Salvi Schostok & Pritchard

Reformers' filing: Cook Clerk Yarbrough 'dragging feet' on complying with fed court's anti-patronage orders

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Longtime Illinois government reform advocate Michael Shakman and others have asked a federal judge to tack at least another year onto federal oversight of hiring practices under Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough

IL Supreme Court to decide if unionized workers can sue employers over workplace fingerprint scans

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The state's high court has allowed an appeal from a worker at Roosevelt University, who is seeking to lead a class action lawsuit against his employer under Illinois' biometrics privacy law, but was blocked when a state appeals court said his union CBA meant he couldn't sue

How 'concrete' an injury is 'emotional distress?' Federal appeals court grapples with question

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A group of four federal appeals court judges says the Seventh Circuit was wrong to toss out a woman's class action claims that a creditor should pay for inflicting "emotional distress" when it sought to collect a "zombie debt"

Ex-secretary accuses University Park village manager, village officials of sex harassment

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The former secretary to University Park's village manager asserts she was subjected to an "onslaught" of sexual harassment from the fall of 2019 to June 2021

Lawsuit vs Skokie school district asks court to order IL school officials to enforce anti-racism policies, programs

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A federal judge has returned the lawsuit vs Skokie Fairview District 72 to Cook County court, where it has been amended to include allegations and demands against Illinois' state school superintendent

Hyatt keeps up effort to make timeclock vendor Kronos pay for its biometrics class action settlement

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The Hyatt hotel chain agreed in January to pay $1.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit over worker fingerprint scans. But the hotelier wants a judge to let it keep suing its timeclock supplier, who Hyatt says actually allegedly violated Illinois' biometrics privacy law