The appeals panel said harm suffered by violations of Illinois' biometrics privacy law aren't workplace injuries, even if the violations occurred in the workplace, in the course of employment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Complaint says former linebacker, who shot himself in 2014, suffered more than 100 concussions playing football at Pittsburg State University in Kansas.
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."
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.
Westlake's owners say the village's lawsuit demanding payout for 'fraud' trespasses on state authority and relies on an 'unconstitutional' village ordinance.
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.
Seventh Circuit Appeals Court in Chicago says some automated dialers acceptable under federal law if they only dial numbers stored in customer databases.
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
