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Class action: Ikea included too much customer card info on receipts
A class action lawsuit accuses furniture retailer Ikea of printing expiration debts for customer credit and debit cards on receipts, allegedly in violation of a federal law -
No injury, no barriers? IL Sup Ct to decide if 'no-injury' standard for big money biometrics lawsuits applies to other laws, too
Walgreens has won the chance to ask the state high court to decide if plaintiffs' lawyers can press big money class actions in Illinois state courts under a federal identity protection law, despite no harm caused by a technical violation of the law, and despite rulings across the country that they can't do so -
Judge dismisses biometrics class action accusing AI firm Clarifai over scraping OKCupid user photos
Facial recognition firm Clarifai said it doesn't do business in or target Illinois, meaning the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act shouldn't apply to its actions. -
Class action accuses Carl Buddig Co. of violating IL biometrics law in making workers scan fingerprints
A class action lawsuit against Illinois-based lunchmeat manufacturer Carl Buddig and Company for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act was filed in the Cook County Circuit Court earlier this month. -
Appeals panel hangs up on some class actions over 'robo' text messages, dials up potential Supreme Court call
Seventh Circuit Appeals Court in Chicago says some automated dialers acceptable under federal law if they only dial numbers stored in customer databases. -
Class action: Tech firm Clarifai scanned OKCupid pics to train face recognition A.I., broke IL privacy law
Complaint asks for court to order Clarifai to 'disgorge profits' earned from alleged illegal photo scans -
Blood testing biz Simple Labs pricked by privacy class action over worker fingerprint scans
A Chicago blood test laboratory has been pricked by a class action lawsuit, accusing it of violating an Illinois state privacy law in the way it required its workers to scan fingerprints when punching in and out of work shifts. -
Lawsuit: Stonebridge of Arlington Heights, Connor Group improperly charge tenants for common area costs
A tenant has filed a class action lawsuit against Stonebridge of Arlington Heights and The Connor Group, alleging a violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud & Deceptive Business Practices Act and other alleged illegal activities. -
Judge deletes class action vs Yahoo over Messenger texts, says 'tens of thousands' may have consented
A federal judge has broken up a class action accusing Yahoo of sending text messages in violation of federal law, saying information provided after he certified the class indicated perhaps tens of thousands of class members may have actually consented to receive the texts when they signed up for Yahoo’s services. -
Judge: Pet adopters can't bring class action vs pet health insurer over 'robocalls'
Saying he understands many of his colleagues have ruled differently, a federal judge in Chicago has denied an attempt by a group of pet adopters to turn their legal beef into a class action against a pet health insurance provider, saying the company did not “harm” the new pet owners by calling to urge them to take advantage of a “gift” of 30-day free health insurance for their new pet, which the new owners had been told was included with the adoption of their animal. -
Repeated automated debt collection calls are a 'concrete injury' under Spokeo, federal law, judge says
A Chicago federal judge has refused to dismiss a suit, brought by a woman against a debt collection company, ruling the woman could have suffered a “concrete” harm when the company allegedly violated the federal Telephone Consumers Protection Act, by repeatedly phoning her after she told them to stop. -
Appeals panel puts debt collector back on hook for class action over potentially illegal lawsuits
A man who claimed someone had fraudulently run up more than $2,500 in debt on a credit card opened in his name without his knowledge has secured another chance to press a lawsuit against a suburban debt collection agency, after a state appeals panel found the agency may have broken federal debt collection laws by suing the man over the contested debt after the statute of limitations had expired. -
Tenant lawsuit: Loop luxury high-rise landlord owes free rent for entering apartments without proper notice
A tenant in a luxury apartment building on the north end of the Loop believes he and his fellow tenants are owed some free rent from their landlord, who is alleged in a new lawsuit to have violated city ordinance by not providing enough warning when sending work crews into tenants’ apartments when they weren’t home. On Sept. 10, Joshua Stahl, a resident of the 73 East Lake apartment building, filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court against RMK Management. -
Judge denies Yahoo's motion for summary judgment in TCPA lawsuit over text messaging service
Litigation over Yahoo! Inc.'s text messaging service will move forward after a federal judge denied the Internet giant's motion for summary judgment. -
Objection to $22.5M attorney's fee request in proposed $75M settlement leads to discovery dispute over class counsel's past TCPA cases
An objection to a request for $22.5 million in attorney’s fees in what is believed to be the largest settlement in the history of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act has produced a discovery battle in Chicago’s federal court. -
Judge gives preliminary OK to $75.5M proposed settlement in TCPA class action; believed to be largest of its kind
HoldermanA federal judge late last month gave a preliminary thumbs-up to what is being dubbed the largest settlement in the two decade-plus history of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.If the agreement receives the judge’s final stamp of approval in December, Capital One and a trio of collection agencies will have to put nearly $75.5 million into a fund to settle a combined class action suit over