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Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling hit with genetic privacy class action
Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling, a Niles-based bottler and distributor of Coke products, is facing a class-action lawsuit under Illinois's genetic information privacy law. -
Baird & Warner accused in class action of allegedly conspiring to force home sellers to pay buyers' agents, brokers
The class action accuses Baird & Warner of allegedly violating Illinois' state antitrust and consumer fraud laws. -
Class action: Northwestern Mutual Life violates IL genetic privacy law by asking applicants about family medical history
An Illinois resident has filed a class action lawsuit against the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, claiming that the company wrongly required applicants to share information about their family medical histories, which the plaintiffs claim amounts to "genetic information" allegedly protected by an Illinois privacy law. -
Big money biometrics privacy class actions enriching handful of lawyers at expense of IL economy, new report claims
A report from the Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse of Illinois says seven plaintiffs' class action firms account for nearly 70% of all class actions active in Chicago area courts under the stringent Biometric Information Privacy Act, commonly known as BIPA -
Class action: United Airlines wrongly asked about workers' medical histories
A class action lawsuit accuses United Airlines of violating Illinois' genetic information privacy law by allegedly improperly asking job applicants about their family medical histories. -
Class action lawsuit accuses Kelly Group of violating IL genetics privacy law by asking workers for medical history
A class action lawsuit alleges that the Kelly Group Design and Construction has violated Illinois privacy law by requiring employees to divulge family medical history as part of the job application process -
BNSF, truck drivers in apparent deal to end biometrics court fight worth hundreds of millions of dollars
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 -
IL biometrics class action: OnlyFans improperly scanned faces of content creators to verify ID, age
A new class action lawsuit vs the parent company of OnlyFans says they violated Illinois' biometrics privacy law in the way it scanned and stored face IDs of content creators -
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. -
Chicago area Shop & Save stores targeted by biometrics class action lawsuit over worker time clock punches
Class action accuses supermarket chain of not giving workers proper notice and securing authorization before scanning their "biometrics," which is typically fingerprints.