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Appeals court: IT firm can’t make insurer foot bill for $28M face scan deal
Cook County Record

Appeals court: IT firm can’t make insurer foot bill for $28M face scan deal

  • Scott Holland
  • Updated Oct 31, 2025

CHICAGO - A state appeals panel has agreed an insurance company doesn’t need to contribute to a $28.5 million settlement that resolved a class…

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BIPA reforms edge lawsuits down, shift plaintiffs’ targets
Cook County Record
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BIPA reforms edge lawsuits down, shift plaintiffs’ targets

  • Jonathan Bilyk
  • Oct 6, 2025

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories discussing the legal landscape surrounding the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy …

Cubs accused over fan face scans, with big bucks in play
Cook County Record
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Cubs accused over fan face scans, with big bucks in play

  • Scott Holland
  • Updated Sep 22, 2025

CHICAGO - The Chicago Cubs and their security contractors are accused in new lawsuits of illegally using face-scanning technology at Wrigley F…

Plaintiffs’ atty family ties trash class action vs Pepperidge Farm
Cook County Record

Plaintiffs’ atty family ties trash class action vs Pepperidge Farm

  • Jonathan Bilyk
  • Updated Aug 27, 2025

CHICAGO - A state appeals panel has pulled the plug, for now, on a class action lawsuit accusing snack food maker Pepperidge Farm of violating…

Appeals court to say if IL biometrics law changes apply to past suits
Cook County Record

Appeals court to say if IL biometrics law changes apply to past suits

  • Scott Holland
  • Updated Jun 27, 2025

CHICAGO - A federal judge has given railroad Union Pacific the green light to ask a federal appeals court to decide if changes reducing the fi…

Appeals court: 'Statutory violations' policy exclusions don't nix coverage for biometrics lawsuits
Federal Courts

Appeals court: 'Statutory violations' policy exclusions don't nix coverage for biometrics lawsuits

  • Scott Holland
  • Updated May 13, 2025

A federal appeals panel has ruled an insurance company can’t use a so-called "statutory violations" catch-all policy exclusion to avoid its ob…

Pritzker signs biometrics privacy law reform; New law will limit risk of business-ending judgments
Cook County Record

Pritzker signs biometrics privacy law reform; New law will limit risk of business-ending judgments

  • Jonathan Bilyk
  • Updated May 21, 2025

Illinois employers and other businesses operating in the state have secured relief from a mounting blizzard of potentially financially ruinous…

Big money biometrics privacy class actions enriching handful of lawyers at expense of IL economy, new report claims
Cook County Record

Big money biometrics privacy class actions enriching handful of lawyers at expense of IL economy, new report claims

  • Jonathan Bilyk
  • Updated May 21, 2025

A small, but growing, group of law firms from Chicago - but increasingly from out of state, as well - has been growing rich off of class actio…

Who benefits from IL biometrics privacy law? Mostly trial lawyers, new report says
Cook County Record

Who benefits from IL biometrics privacy law? Mostly trial lawyers, new report says

  • Jonathan Bilyk
  • Updated May 21, 2025

A new report says Illinois’ biometrics privacy law has largely served as a tool to enrich trial lawyers, who have raked in hundreds of million…

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