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.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Facebook’s attempt to untag itself from a class action lawsuit worth potentially billions of dollars under Illinois’ biometric information privacy law.
A new lawsuit has targeted subprime auto lender Santander Consumer USA, accusing the company of “incessantly calling consumers” and charging them improper fees should they fall behind on their loans.
A federal appeals panel says a lower court was right to close out a class action accusing Groupon of wrongly using people’s Instagram photos, because the judges agreed Instagram usernames aren’t enough to establish the identity of untold numbers of potential additional plaintiffs.
A federal judge in Maryland has ruled the city of Chicago can continue using a local ordinance to sue the Marriott hotel chain regarding a data breach.
Facebook wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appellate court's ruling allowing a class action worth potentially billions of dollars to continue under an Illinois biometrics privacy law, as the company argues plaintiffs weren't harmed and the case would be too sprawling.
The parent company of Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park is arguing hospital workers had plenty of advance notice the facility was closing, contrary to a suit by the workers that alleges employees were "blindsided" when the owners abruptly shut down, allegedly violating federal labor law.
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx had sued over alleged 2016 Cambridge Analytica data mining. But Facebook says the lawsuit can't be allowed to continue.
More vendors who supply punchclocks and other payroll tracking technology for businesses of all sizes and types, throughout Illinois, have been targeted in class action lawsuits, asserting the vendors should be held liable for potentially millions of violations every day of Illinois’ biometrics privacy law.
The University of Chicago has asked to be dismissed from a class action lawsuit accusing Google and the university's hospital of improperly sharing patient data, as the hospital asserted the plaintiffs haven't been able to demonstrate how the hospital harmed anyone.
A federal bankruptcy judge has cleared the way for the village of Melrose Park to resume its effort to punish the owners of Westlake Hospital for using bankruptcy to close the hospital.
A federal judge has ruled bankruptcy laws should block lawyers representing the village of Melrose Park from continuing to sue the owners of a now-shuttered suburban hospital for using federal bankruptcy protection to close the hospital, despite a state court order blocking the owners from locking the doors at the financially-troubled health care facility.
Apple has now joined the ranks of companies large and small hit with a class action in Illinois under the state’s biometric information privacy law, as a group of trial lawyers have taken aim at the company’s deployment of its Siri virtual assistant.
Class action trial lawyer Jay Edelson has secured a court seal on his firm's financial records, after saying he feared his wife's divorce lawyers would feed it to the firm of Johnson & Bell, which is suing Edelson's firm in a separate matter.
