Plastics manufacturers Siffron and Pexco have been hit with a class action, accusing them of improperly requiring workers to scan fingerprints, allegedly without proper notice and consent under Illinois' biometrics privacy law.
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.
A Cook County judge will let a plaintiff, who has settled with a biometric maker in a privacy class action, notify employees of businesses that used the biometric technology of their right to settlement funds, despite the businesses' fear these employees will learn they can sue them.
A supplier of hospital bed linens and other health care textile products has agreed to settle a class action brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
A federal appeals panel in Chicago has upheld a federal judge's ruling tying up loose ends holding up a $76 million payout under the largest TCPA class action settlement ever
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
A class action lawsuit filed on March 1 in Cook County Circuit Court accuses athletic apparel company Puma North America of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act over worker fingeprint scans.
A class action suit filed on Feb. 26 in Cook County Circuit Court accuses Bearco Management Inc, owner of over 30 McDonald's restaurants across Illinois, of illegally collecting, storing and using workers' biometric data.
The settlement will provide $375 each to 40,000 class members, and $8.75 million to three law firms that led the lawsuits under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Facial scanning tech firm Clearview says it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to unravel a thorny tangle of clashing decisions on which courts have jurisdiction over class actions brought under Illinois' biometrics privacy law. And big money could ride on the answer.
ComEd is telling a judge he should pull the plug on multimillion-dollar class action suits, which allege ComEd bribed state Democratic figures to jack up electric rates, because the rates were authorized by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a South Side nursing home operator, who argues the state's workers' comp law should shield it from a class action lawsuit brought by workers over fingerprint scans under the state biometrics privacy law.
ID verification company Onfido was sued under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by OfferUp users who verified their identity using Onfido's TruYou program.
A federal judge granted CUB, with its lawyers from the firm of Edelson P.C., permission to gain a stake in any judgments or settlements offered by ComEd to resolve at least two class actions on behalf of the utility's customers, arising from the utility's role in a bribery conspiracy with the political machine of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Three Chicago class action firms had sued ADP in 2017-18 under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. A judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement deal on Nov. 6.
The lawsuit asserts L.A. personal injury lawyer Tom Girardi and his wife, Erika Jayne, of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, of converting settlement funds intended for the families of the victims of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash, to pay for "outrageous" personal spending practices.
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.
