Recent News About Law Offices of James X. Bormes
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The Hyatt hotel chain agreed in January to pay $1.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit over worker fingerprint scans. But the hotelier wants a judge to let it keep suing its timeclock supplier, who Hyatt says actually allegedly violated Illinois' biometrics privacy law
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Workers would get $569-$952 each, lawyers will get up to $1.5M from the settlement
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A group of Chicago lawyers want $427,000 in fees for pressing a lawsuit against Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels, which alleged the chain breached biometric privacy law, saying their cut of the pie is "eminently reasonable."
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The lawsuit accuses Chicago's largest operator of river tours and other charter excursions of improperly requiring workers to scan their fingerprints to track their work hours, under Illinois' biometrics law
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The $1.64 million settlement would end a class action lawsuit, filed in 2017 under the Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act, against the company that handles cargo at O'Hare International Airport
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A Cook County woman is pursuing a class action lawsuit against TCC Wireless, LLC., alleging that the company illegally shared her biometric date.
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A class action lawsuit was filed in January against Adecco USA, Inc., a nationwide staffing and human resources agency, for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according to court documents from the Circuit Court of Cook County.
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Lawsuit accuses the company that operates Navy Pier of violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act
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Class action against popular Chicago area liquor store chain one of the latest to be filed under the Illinois BIPA law against employers
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Hyatt says timeclock vendor Kronos actually collected scanned worker data protected under BIPA, not the hotel chain.
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Saying customers got the chocolate candy they paid for, a federal appeals court has boxed up a class action lawsuit against Fannie May, which had accused the candymaker of under filling its candy packages.
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Class action lawsuits targeting employers and other businesses for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law continue to roll into Cook County’s courts, as trial lawyers continue to pile up the complaints in the wake of a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision giving the green light to such actions. Businesses hit with the suits include Roosevelt University; CSX; Hearthside Food Solutions; and Professional Freezing Solutions.
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In the wake of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling appearing to green light such actions, a flurry of class action lawsuits have landed in Cook County courts in the last few days, accusing a number of employers, including Walmart, of violating a state privacy law in making employees scan their fingerprints when punching the clock or accessing cash registers.
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A federal judge in Chicago sided with Fannie May and has bagged a class action complaint accusing the chocolatier of under filling its candy packages.
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