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Jewel-Osco OKs $1.6M deal to end Osco pharmacists' fingerprint scans biometrics class action
About 1,600 Osco pharmacy workers could get $977 each from the settlement, after Jewel-Osco failed to persuade judges the IL biometrics law was unconstitutional -
Jewel-Osco says potentially massive class action over worker fingerprint scans filed too late, lacks facts
The company that owns Jewel-Osco is saying a putative class action, which alleges the grocery chain broke Illinois biometric law, should be thrown out because it is "conclusory and speculative." -
Judge OKs OT wage class action for Jewel-Osco assistant store managers
A federal judge ruled salaried assistant store managers at Jewel-Osco can press forward with a class action claiming the supermarket chain violated their rights to overtime pay under federal and Illinois state wage laws. -
Appeals panel: 'Reasonable consumers' could be misled by '100% Parmesan cheese' claims
The appeals judges said a federal district judge was wrong to dismiss dozens of lawsuits against the sellers of shelf-stable Parmesan cheese simply because the ingredients on the label explicitly included the cellulose many sellers included as a filler and anti-caking agent. -
Judge shelves store managers' age discrimination legal action vs Jewel-Osco
Supermarket chain Jewel-Osco has prevailed against claims it discriminated against a group of older store managers, who accused the retailer of setting them up to be replaced by younger workers. -
Jewel-Osco corporate parent asks IL appeals court to declare biometrics law unconstitutional
Albertsons says the law illegally exempts 'financial institutions' from numbering among the defendants in 500-plus class action lawsuits filed in just the last 3 years. -
Group of seven Jewel store managers can jointly press age discrimination lawsuits, judge says
A federal judge will allow current and former Jewel Food store managers to pursue their age discrimination suit against the supermarket chain as a group, rather than individually, saying the plaintiffs' claims are similar enough to proceed together. -
CVS, Osco ask courts to sanction doctor for suing over faxed prescription refill request forms
CVS and Osco have asked a federal judge to punish a Deer Park doctor, accusing the doctor of wrongly suing the pharmacies for merely faxing forms to the doctor’s office asking him to verify patient requests for prescription refills. -
Jewel Osco, others allegedly failed to prevent patron from falling
A woman is suing Jewel-Osco, New Albertson's Inc. and Oakwood Contractors Inc. for alleged negligence. -
IL appeals panel says Jewel-Osco didn't have duty to help man fighting with thief who stole wife's purse
A state appeals panel has determined Jewel-Osco had no duty to keep a man from being injured as he attempted to stop a woman from stealing his wife's purse in a Chicago store. -
Ex-Jewel-Osco managers' age discrimination lawsuit trimmed; Judge cuts disparate impact claim
An age discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of four former Jewel Osco store managers against the Chicago area supermarket chain has been trimmed, after a federal judge granted the company’s request to shelve several of the ex-managers’ claims, including a key count alleging the company’s policies and practices favor younger managers at the expense of the more experienced. -
Another class action over now-repealed Cook County pop tax lands in court, even as others settle
On the day the controversial Cook County “pop tax” expired, one of the law firms behind the rash of class action lawsuits against area retailers and restaurants over the collection of the tax brought perhaps one final class action claim against an area retailer, saying a man was charged a few cents too much for club sodas he purchased at two local Jewel supermarkets. -
Federal judge grates Parmesan cheese class actions, pans deceptive marketing claims
A federal judge in Chicago has shredded, for now, a block of class action lawsuits that piled up last year against Kraft, Walmart, Target, the parent company of Jewel Food Stores and others over the contents of their grated Parmesan cheese, saying he did not believe the plaintiffs could prevail in asserting the containers of “100 percent” cheese were deceptively marketed. -
Circle K, Jewel, Subway added to list of shops sued over collection of Cook County's 'pop tax'
Add three more retailers and restaurants to the list of those targeted by lawsuits over the collection of Cook County’s so-called “pop tax,” as new plaintiffs have brought actions against Circle K convenience stores, Jewel food stores and Subway restaurants operating in and around Chicago.