Loevy & Loevy
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312 N May Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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October 2016 crash left one dead, one severely injured. The plaintiffs are separately asking another judge to potentially order the village to raise taxes to cover the cost of the verdict, pointing to Dolton's dire financial circumstances amid the scandal- and dysfunction-plagued administration of Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard
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The "creative" settlement would allow potentially many thousands of class member plaintiffs and their lawyers to scrape together millions of dollars from tech startup Clearview, which was sued for alleged violations of Illinois' biometric privacy law and other privacy statutes
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The settlement would end the court fight in the first class action under the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act to go to trial. A federal judge last summer tossed out a $228 million jury award secured by plaintiffs.
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The lawsuit says the court could order the village to raise taxes to fund the judgment. They say such action is needed to address financial mismanagement in Dolton under Mayor Tiffany Henyard.
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Cryptocurrency mining company SupplyBit has been hit with a class action from an investor who claimed the company broke Illinois securities law by allegedly surreptitiously selling him and others millions of dollars worth of unregistered securities and allegedly reneged on promises to pay investors what they were allegedly owed.
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A judge had tossed out a $228M verdict vs BNSF Railway in July in a long-running court battle over claims BNSF had wrongly required truck drivers to scan hand prints when entering secure rail yards in Illinois
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According to city data,the firm of Loevy & Loevy has sued the city of Chicago at least 111 times since 2010, generating at least $32.9 million in fees in that span. The firm has typically represented people suing over alleged wrongful convictions or allegedly coerced confessions, and other alleged police misconduct
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Lawyers for BNSF Railway are pushing to undo a $238 million verdict in favor of 45,000 truckers, who claim BNSF violated Illinois' biometrics privacy law by making them scan fingerprints to access rail yards. Plaintiffs, though, say the verdict should've been $807M
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The ruling from a Chicago federal judge gives the edge to Chicago-based Loevy & Loevy in a tussle with its former attorney, Scott Drury, over who can lay claim to a potential massive payday as lead attorneys in a sprawling biometrics case against facial recognition tech firm Clearview A.I.
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Freight rail operator BNSF says the $238 million verdict violates the Constitution and federal law, as the plaintiffs admit 'they suffered no actual harm.' Plaintiffs, in turn, now seeking $800 million instead
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Attorney Scott Drury has pushed back against accusations he attempted to improperly push his former law firm, Loevy & Loevy, out of potentially millions of dollars in legal fees from a possible biometrics class action settlement with facial recognition tech firm Clearview AI.
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Chicago firm Loevy & Loevy said its former attorney, Scott Drury, resigned and attempted to bring clients to his new firm, cutting his old firm out of any potential settlement deal with Clearview. Drury said he "strongly disputes" those claims
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The lawsuits came after a federal judge said the retailers couldn't be added to a larger class action against Clearview over the sharing of face images "scraped" from online sources
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Complaint alleged improper collection, storage of user biometric data
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Tech firm Clearview has opposed the move to add more defendants, saying it is "bad faith ... transparent gamesmanship" by plaintiffs' lawyers
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Chicago federal judge rejects arguments tech firm's data scraping, facial database didn't break privacy laws
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Federal judge lets biometrics privacy claims survive retailer's motion to remove itself from a larger action targeting facial recognition tech provider Clearview AI and a collection of its clients
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A Chicago federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $92 million settlement of a lawsuit that accuses TikTok of breaking privacy laws, overriding objections the payout falls short and users are still not fully protected.
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Appellate panel rules district judge wrong to order release of security footage showing a man pushing another passenger onto tracks at Blue Line Washington station in 2017.
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A group of Chicago cops and a former Cook County ASA say they were left to face lawsuits after State's Attorney Kim Foxx opted not to contest innocence claims from two who had confessed to a brutal 1994 rape and murder, despite her deputies' continued belief the two men were guilty.
