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'This should keep you up at night': $550M Facebook settlement could spark yet more IL biometrics class actions
Attorneys urge employers to beware of lawsuits, address company policies and push Illinois officials to 'seek changes' to the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act. -
Appeals panel forecloses class action vs Experian over prescreen reporting; chides Experian for counterclaim vs plaintiff
Man says his personal data was improperly released in 2011, but didn't learn of it until recruited by lawyers for class action. -
Judge: Fingerprint scans caused no real harm, but vending machine biz still could face huge judgment in state court
The lack of 'concrete' injury means the case can't be tried in federal court. But Illinois Supreme Court decision means that is not an issue in state courts, federal judge says. -
Facebook will pay $550M to settle Illinois photo tag class action brought by Edelson, other firms
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to settle one of the first and largest class actions launched under an Illinois biometrics privacy law. -
IL Supreme Court: Misdemeanor convictions shouldn't preclude gun ownership forever
State high court justices call 2nd Amendment rights a 'civil right' able to be restored post-conviction, on par with the rights to vote and jury service -
Lawyer's widow: Recent Supreme Court ruling means she should get $3M in lawsuit vs drugmaker GSK over Paxil labeling
SCOTUS ruling changed "approach" to drug labeling questions, plaintiffs said. GSK says the change wasn't "extraordinary" enough and would open "floodgates" to attempts at lawsuit "do-overs." -
Supreme Court slams door on Facebook's bid to undo photo tagging class action
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Facebook’s attempt to untag itself from a class action lawsuit worth potentially billions of dollars under Illinois’ biometric information privacy law. -
Judge ends class action accusing IDT Energy of breaking telemarketing law, says lawsuit brought in wrong court
Supreme Court ruling doesn't allow New Jersey man to sue energy company in Chicago federal court -
Report says employment lawsuits down, but class action success rate highest ever; Cost businesses billions
Plaintiffs' lawyers are securing class action nods at 80% clip, and settlements are still totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, a report from Seyfarth Shaw says -
Judge certifies class in private lawsuit over Kraft's wheat market activities
'Fraud on the market' theory allows complaint to continue -
No easy answers to solving Illinois state pension crisis, attorney who fought pension reform says
Simply 'diminishing pensions' not the only or best solution for IL state pension crisis, lawyer says -
IL Supreme Court: Federal law doesn't block railroad from suing employees it blames for causing train accident
A railroad company can sue employees who it blames for causing railroad accidents, even after those employees first sue the railroad for injuries they suffered in the accident the railroad says they caused, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled. -
LOCKE LORD LLP: Locke Lord’s Miki Goodin and Ernesto Palomo Recognized as Notable Minorities in Law by Crain’s Chicago Business
Miki Goodin and Ernesto Palomo, Partners in Locke Lord’s Chicago office, have been selected by Crain’s Chicago Business as 2019 Notable Minorities in Accounting, Consulting and Law honorees. -
Pritzker says IL pension reform would be shot down by U.S. Constitution, but that's far from certain, experts say
Illinois faces many billions in debt and tax demands for pensions. Gov. Pritzker says amending the state constitution won't help -
Facebook: SCOTUS should delete biometrics class action, says plaintiffs weren't harmed by photo tagging system
Facebook wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appellate court's ruling allowing a class action worth potentially billions of dollars to continue under an Illinois biometrics privacy law, as the company argues plaintiffs weren't harmed and the case would be too sprawling. -
Cook County Circuit Court selects 15 to be appointed associate county judges
Six current judges have been reselected, and nine lawyers selected, by Cook County's elected circuit judges to serve as the county's newest associate judges. -
NEAL GERBER & EISENBERG LLP: Three Neal Gerber Eisenberg Women Litigators Selected for ABA 100 Women Who Inspire Us
NGE is proud to share that Jill Berkeley, Angela Elbert and Tonya Newman were recently selected among 100 Women Who Inspire Us at the American Bar Association 2019 Women in Litigation conference, which took place from November 13–15 in Chicago. -
US appeals court shuts down try by asbestos plaintiffs to skip state court for key legal question in mesothelioma suit
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an effort by plaintiffs in an asbestos mesothelioma lawsuit to accelerate their case by using the federal courts to answer a legal question already posed in the state court hearing their personal injury case. -
Northwest IL gun club sues to overturn IL open carry handgun ban
A northwest Illinois gun club and one of its members have sued the Illinois state government, asking the courts to declare Illinois’ prohibition on open carry of firearms unconstitutional. -
Judge: Housing groups can keep suing Deutsche Bank over foreclosure home repair discrimination
The collective action vs Deutsche Bank and others over its maintenance of bank-owned homes in minority neighborhoods has been give new life.