Lawsuit accuses the Salvation Army of using its adult rehabilitation programs to secure essentially free labor from people ordered into the program by the courts or who opted into the program out of need, allegedly in violation of federal human trafficking law
Under the deal, donors could receive anywhere from $85 to $800 each, depending on how many people submit valid claims for a cut of the settlement fund. Lawyers could get $3.5 million.
A Cook County judge will consider giving final approval to a settlement deal to end a class action against bakery ingredients maker Dawn Food Products under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
A supplier of hospital bed linens and other health care textile products has agreed to settle a class action brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Lawsuit asserts Biomat USA and Talecris Plasma Resources, which operate plasma collection sites in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois, improperly collected donors' fingerprints without notice and consent.
Federal judge says timeclock vendors can bear the same responsibility as workers' actual employers to collect consent and provide notice before their customers' employees scan fingerprints when punching in and out.
Another Chicago federal judge has punted a class action lawsuit over worker fingeprint scans back to Cook County court, where plaintiffs don't need to show they were every actually harmed to sue.
A former employee at auto parts manufacturer and supplier Flex-N-Gate has filed a class action complaint against the company, claiming its storage of his fingerprint scan through a biometric time clock violates an Illinois biometrics privacy law.
The Rizza Auto Group and Keytrak, a company that makes and supports technology car dealers use to secure their cars’ keys, have become the latest targets of a class action lawsuit under an Illinois biometrics privacy law.
In a recently filed class action lawsuit, a former employee alleges Illinois Tool Works unlawfully collected her biometric data, and that of other workers, by requiring workers to scan their handprints to document their work hours.