The first—and a significant—amendment to the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) has just passed both chambers of the Illinois legislature and is headed to Governor Pritzker for approval. SB2979 amends BIPA to address the...more
The Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) provides that a prevailing party “may” recover liquidated damages for a violation of the statute. Addressing the potential for “annihilative liability” in White Castle, the Illinois...more
Right on the heels of the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in Tims, the Court delivered yet another crushing blow to Illinois businesses in Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc. Answering the crucial question of when a...more
The BIPA hits keep coming for employers and companies in Illinois. Today, in a long-awaited opinion in Tims v. Black Horse Carriers, Inc., the Illinois Supreme Court found that a five-year statute of limitations applies to...more
If companies that employ Illinois residents and use any type of equipment to scan fingers, hands, face, or eyes were not yet aware of and concerned by the Illinois’ biometric privacy law, the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act...more
“An injury in law is not an injury in fact.” Too often since the Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Spokeo, the nexus between the intangible harms often claimed by plaintiffs in ever increasing privacy-based class actions,...more
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