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Judge tosses class action vs Google, U of Chicago over patient medical records sharing
A Chicago federal judge says the plaintiffs, represented by the Edelson firm, have more work to do to show how plaintiffs were economically harmed by the alleged records sharing to aid Google's construction of a new health records system. -
Plaintiffs' lawyers file 600 more personal injury lawsuits vs Sterigenics, now also suing Griffith Foods
Alsip-based Griffith Foods says it has had nothing to do with the shuttered Willowbrook sterilization plant for more than 20 years. -
Judge guts Johnson & Bell defamation lawsuit vs Edelson over 'self-serving publicity tour'
A Cook County judge has ruled Chicago corporate law firm Johnson & Bell can't continue with its defamation and disparagement claims vs class action law firm Edelson P.C. -
Melrose Park settles to end Westlake Hospital legal fight for $1.5M; Edelson firm could get 20%
After nearly a year and a half of litigation in multiple courts, Melrose Park and Pipeline Health have settled the lawsuits over the closure of Westlake Hospital for $1.5 million, potentially minus 20% to pay their lawyers. -
Ex-Westlake Hospital workers OK to continue lawsuit vs Pipeline Health over hospital closure, termination warnings
Judge rejects motion to dismiss, says company can't skirt role as employer under WARN Act -
Judge tosses wiretapping charges from class action vs Bose over claims it used an app to eavesdrop on users' listening choices
State eavesdropping charge also dropped as judge determines Bose was a 'party' to 'intercepted' communications -
Clearview targeted in new biometrics privacy class actions from ACLU, others; Suit also targets Clearview vendors
Facial recognition data scraper Clearview AI, and two of its distributors, CDW-Government and Wynndalco, have been accused of violating the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act. -
Class action: Two workers accessed children's patient records at Lurie Children's Hospital without authorization
A new lawsuit filed by Edelson P.C. accuses the Chicago children's hospital of not doing enough to stop two workers from accessing records for 8,000 patients over two years. -
West suburban popcorn maker hits Chase, Ruth's Chris, others, with class action over COVID-19 relief loans
Complaint accuses Chase of prioritizing large clients like Ruth's Chris at the expense of small businesses seeking a "life raft" from federal COVID-19 stimulus loans -
Judge: Timeclock vendor Kronos can't punch out sprawling class action over other companies' employee fingerprint scans
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. -
SEC dropped from U of Florida football player's concussion class action vs NCAA
Federal judge determines SEC can't be sued in Indiana. -
Family of college football player who committed suicide can continue concussion lawsuit vs NCAA, MIAA
Complaint says former linebacker, who shot himself in 2014, suffered more than 100 concussions playing football at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. -
Kim Foxx reenters legal fight over Westlake Hospital, says hospital closure broke state law
Westlake owners Pipeline Health Systems closed hospital under bankruptcy in 2019, saying they were losing millions of dollars per month. The state's attorney says the bankruptcy involved a "sham entity." -
Appeals panel: Insurer can't avoid covering Schaumburg L.A. Tan franchisee vs fingerprint scan class action
The justices ruled a "publication" under the terms of the policy can include a disclosure of fingerprint scans to a third-party software vendor, making it a "personal injury" under the Illinois BIPA law. -
Pipeline: Melrose Park's lawsuit over Westlake Hospital closure rests on 'fantasy' theory
Westlake's owners say the village's lawsuit demanding payout for 'fraud' trespasses on state authority and relies on an 'unconstitutional' village ordinance. -
Does IL workers' comp law trump biometrics class actions over fingerprint scans? Appeals court poised to answer
Employers across state watching to see if courts will award relief from 'massive, potentially ruinous' class action lawsuits over technical violations of the IL BIPA law, in which no one was actually harmed. -
Appeals panel hangs up on some class actions over 'robo' text messages, dials up potential Supreme Court call
Seventh Circuit Appeals Court in Chicago says some automated dialers acceptable under federal law if they only dial numbers stored in customer databases. -
Court filing: 'Mere fact' a Gurnee factory used EtO shouldn't allow personal injury emissions lawsuits to continue
Vantage Chemical says federal, state emissions rules should thwart the lawsuits' 'public nuisance' and 'negligence' claims. -
Appeals panel slices, wraps class action vs Subway over T-Mobile 'free sandwich' promo texts
Seventh Circuit court affirms lower court ruling that sandwich chain had too little control over the text coupon sent to T-Mobile customers to make it pay under federal law -
'This should keep you up at night': $550M Facebook settlement could spark yet more IL biometrics class actions
Attorneys urge employers to beware of lawsuits, address company policies and push Illinois officials to 'seek changes' to the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act.