The class action lawsuit says AWS' alleged activities allegedly violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and allowed AWS to profit by boosting performance of its image recognition program
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
The state's high court has allowed an appeal from a worker at Roosevelt University, who is seeking to lead a class action lawsuit against his employer under Illinois' biometrics privacy law, but was blocked when a state appeals court said his union CBA meant he couldn't sue
The U.S. Supreme Court says Southwest Airlines ramp workers are involved in interstate commerce, and should be given exemption under federal law from mandatory arbitration clauses in their employment contracts
With potentially billions of dollars on the line, justices on the state high court must answer the question of how many repeated scans of fingerprints and other biometric data should cost Illinois employers $1,000-$5,000 each under the state's stringent Biometric Information Privacy Act
The judge said a tenant from a downtown Chicago office building managed by Jones Lang LaSalle has done enough to back up their claims of an illegal "hot cargo" conspiracy between JLL and unions across 20 Chicago towers
A federal judge said a 2020 settlement ending a class action vs facial recognition tech vendor Jumio also applies to Jumio's customers, thwarting a class action brought against WeWork under the Illinois BIPA law
The lawsuits were filed against 11 companies, accusing them of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act for the way they required workers to scan fingerprints when punching the clock to begin and end work shifts.
A worker suing supermarket chain Tony's Finer Foods also led a biometrics class action on the same claims against biometric time clock maker Kronos, which settled earlier this year for $15 million.
A Cook County judge had ruled workers' claims over fingerprint scans were separate from their union contract. But a state appeals panel said they would not break with a decision set by a federal appeals court on the question.
According to settlement documents, nearly 172,000 class members - people who used Kronos fingerprint scanning timeclocks to punch in and out of work shifts - could be in line for payments of $290-$580 each
White Castle argued only an employee's the first fingerprint scan can violate BIPA; Plaintiffs are seeking hundreds or even thousands more claims for each employee to claim potentially 'staggering' damages against employers
An Illinois woman is suing Brittlan II, LLC, which owns and operates several McDonald's restaurants, alleging that the company violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Illinois employers seeking to limit the reach of the law that has spawned thousands of potentially ruinous class action lawsuits had sought to restrict class actions under the state's biometrics law to a one year time limit for reckoning violations. Justices said that limit only applies to certain sections of the law.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh CIrcuit Court of Appeals expressed doubt during oral arguments over whether they are the court that should address a key legal question over how to decide how much money employers may owe in lawsuit payouts under the Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act.
A new class action lawsuit accuses Turing of violating Illinois' biometrics law for the way its Turing Shield products scans and collects facial geometry from workers undergoing COVID screenings when reporting for work.
A federal judge in Chicago will allow worker timeclock maker Kronos to attempt to defeat,or at least limit, a massive class action lawsuit under Illinois' biometrics law by arguing workers effectively consented to having their fingerprints scanned by continuing to scan their fingerprints on Kronos-supplied biometric time clocks.
A federal judge says she won't let Geico ask a federal appeals court to review her refusal to dismiss a class action accusing the insurer of "deceptive" statements over how much customers could save through the "Geico Giveback" COVID relief program.
The University Club of Chicago has been hit with a class action lawsuit, accusing it of improperly requiring workers to scan their fingerprints to prove their identity when punching the clock at work, allegedly violating Illinois' biometrics privacy law.