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Despite some dismissals, Macy's still facing privacy lawsuits for use of facial recognition database
Federal judge lets biometrics privacy claims survive retailer's motion to remove itself from a larger action targeting facial recognition tech provider Clearview AI and a collection of its clients
26 Foley Attorneys Named to 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
26 Foley Attorneys Named to 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists.
Schiff Earns “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality” for 12th Year
Schiff Earns “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality” for 12th Year.
Class action: Fertility Clinics of Illinois should pay for big patient data breach
A class action on behalf of nearly 80,000 patients says the Fertility Clinics of Illinois failed to notify patients and regulators for months of a data breach that exposed personal information and medical records.
Lawsuit says Lurie Children's fired white male worker for complaining of race, sex discrimination, politics-based harassment
A former maintenance worker at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago says the hospital discriminated against him on the basis of race and sex and retaliated against him when he complained about political and sexual harassment from coworkers.
Lake County citizen McConchie seeks to intervene in Madison County's challenge to judicial redistricting
SPRINGFIELD – Lake County citizen Dan McConchie aims to challenge division of his county into judicial subcircuits as a partner with Madison County at Sangamon County circuit court.
Judge puts hold on ex-IL State Police exec's suit over sex assault claims by worker allegedly covering up theft
The lawsuit from former director of the Illinois State Police Merit Board accuses ex-Merit Board CFO of exploiting ties to Pritzker to get him removed in bid to keep her job and forestall prosecution
Blair Dawson Receives CIPM Certification, Bolstering Lewis Brisbois’ Data Privacy Practice
Blair Dawson Receives CIPM Certification, Bolstering Lewis Brisbois’ Data Privacy Practice.
Polsinelli Earns Designation as a “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Workplace Equality” for Fourth Consecutive Year
Polsinelli Earns Designation as a “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Workplace Equality” for Fourth Consecutive Year.
Appeals court says Pritzker's eviction moratorium didn't apply to case in which tenant allegedly threatened landlord
An appeals panel has ruled a Chicago judge was right to grant an eviction, despite Gov. JB Pritzker's former moratorium on evictions in Illinois, because of alleged threats a tenant directed at a landlord.
UIC law prof sues administrators over efforts to railroad him over allegedly racially insensitive test question
UIC School of Law Professor Jason Kilborn says UIC administrators violated his constitutional and legal rights in the way they handled student complaints about an exam question that included an example redacted anti-Black slur
2022 PLUS Cyber University on February 1-3, 2022
2022 PLUS Cyber University on February 1-3, 2022.
Condo owner class action targets RealManage, HomeWiseDocs for 'unconscionable fees' charged for owner documents
The new lawsuit takes aim under the Illinois Condo Act at RealManage, which manages properties throughout the Chicago area, and HomeWiseDocs, which allegedly serves 1,300 condo associations in Illinois
Appeals panel agrees negative online reviews aren't enough to allow libel lawsuits
Posts to Facebook, Google, Yelp are opinion, not factual assertions, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
Insurer says it shouldn't pay to defend Medline vs ethylene oxide lawsuits
Evanston Insurance says its policies exclude coverage for the kinds of EtO emissions Medline is accused of discharging in 90 personal injury lawsuits in Cook County court
IL High Court: Cities can't exclude certain disabled firefighters from enhanced lifetime benefits by redefining 'catastrophic injury'
The Illinois Supreme Court shot down the Peoria City Council's attempt to redefine the term "catastrophic injury" to narrow the range of employees who could qualify
Judge says Chicago residents can't sue private firm over 75-year Chicago parking meter lease
A federal judge said the plaintiffs legal injuries are apparent, but the city contract has immunity from antitrust lawsuits
Cook County judge tosses class actions vs ComEd over bribes to Madigan; Appeal coming
A Cook County judge ruled courts can't make ComEd repay potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in allegedly ill-gotten electricity rate increases, because to do so would require the courts to unconstitutionally question how Illinois state lawmakers approved the laws authorizing the higher rates
Ex-sports radio reporter Rodewald sues Niles West H.S. teacher, District 219 for defamation, harassment
The lawsuit claims a Niles high school teacher and her husband launched an online and phone harassment campaign against him, torpedoing certain career opportunities, and enabled another person to call him a "defender of racism"
IL High Court: Actual damages trigger time limits for legal malpractice suits, not date of actual alleged mistakes
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Jan. 21 in a Cook County case, that the statute of limitations in a legal malpractice matter did not begin running until the client actually suffered damages as a result of the alleged malpractice, not years before when the alleged malpractice occurred.