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Aug. 5: Circuit Court of Cook County docket for "replevin" cases

By The Cook County Record | Aug 13, 2019

The following cases categorized as "replevin" cases were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Aug. 5. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:

Federal judge nixes plaintiffs' bid to downplay damages, send BIPA class action back to Cook County court

By Dan Churney | Aug 13, 2019

A Chicago federal judge has ruled a putative class action suit by a former worker at a Cicero bakery, who alleged her employer breached biometric privacy law, should stay in federal court, as the judge took a dim view of an attempt by the plaintiffs to downplay their own potential damages demands in a bid to get the case kicked back to a Cook County courtroom.

Big loss for Facebook on IL privacy law, big win for trial lawyers; Legal questions could be ticketed for Supreme Court

By Jonathan Bilyk | Aug 13, 2019

A recent decision from a California federal appeals court has handed a big win to a group of plaintiffs seeking to use an Illinois privacy law to squeeze Facebook for potentially billions of dollars, and could forebode a date before the U.S. Supreme Court, should trial lawyers seek to use the decision to boost other attempts to sidestep the high court’s earlier attempt to limit their ability to bring large class actions over claims in which no one suffered any actual harm.