The settlement of the ACLU's lawsuit also carries nationwide implications for Clearview, extending the reach of Illinois' law over the online facial recognition services provider. The company sells access to its facial ID databases, largely to law enforcement and companies like banks and loss prevention specialists.
An Illinois appeals court rejected an objector's attempt to rewrite the 2020 settlement that ended a class action lawsuit accusing Adtalem Global Education of misleading marketing
A federal judge said a 2020 settlement ending a class action vs facial recognition tech vendor Jumio also applies to Jumio's customers, thwarting a class action brought against WeWork under the Illinois BIPA law
A California federal appeals court says the big fee award to the lawyers for their work leading the class action under Illinois' biometrics law wasn't excessive
A federal judge granted final approval to a deal to end a class action vs Octapharma Plasma over claims the company improperly required plasma donors to scan their fingerprints, in violation of Illinois' biometrics privacy law
According to settlement documents, nearly 172,000 class members - people who used Kronos fingerprint scanning timeclocks to punch in and out of work shifts - could be in line for payments of $290-$580 each
The high court said workers' claims under the Illinois biometrics privacy law aren't actual workplace injuries, and employers should look elsewhere for relief from the massive potential liability under the biometrics law
Jumio had settled similar claims in a different lawsuit in 2020, but new lawsuit says Jumio didn't change its policies or behavior, and now can be sued again under the same claims
Lawyers who brought the suit could get $2.1 million. People who donated plasma at BioLife since 2015 could get $500-$800 each, according to plaintiffs' lawyers.
Under the deal, donors could receive anywhere from $85 to $800 each, depending on how many people submit valid claims for a cut of the settlement fund. Lawyers could get $3.5 million.
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.
Employers argue "injuries" suffered by workers whose privacy rights may have been violated in the workplace should be sent to Illinois' workers' comp system. Plaintiffs say the cases belong in court, with potentially billions of dollars on the line.
A federal judge says the plaintiffs can't show Madigan exerted "improper" influence on state lawmakers to pass new state laws beneficial to ComEd, so their racketeering case over ComEd's alleged bribes can't continue.
The small business owners had accused big bank JPMorgan Chase of all but shutting small businesses out from PPP loan funds, while steering them to "preferred" customers.
A federal judge in Chicago will allow worker timeclock maker Kronos to attempt to defeat,or at least limit, a massive class action lawsuit under Illinois' biometrics law by arguing workers effectively consented to having their fingerprints scanned by continuing to scan their fingerprints on Kronos-supplied biometric time clocks.
Three new class action lawsuits accuse four "people search" sites, operated by PeopleConnect, of illegally using Illinoisans names and personal information to sell search subscriptions.
