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Class Action Statutory Damages Private Right of Action

A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Illinois BIPA Reform Takes Effect

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The long-awaited amendment provides immediate relief to corporate defendants from business-destroying liability - On August 2, 2024, Senate Bill 2979 went into effect limiting available damages under Illinois’ Biometric...more

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Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more

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Year In Review: 2023 BIPA Litigation Takeaways

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. Since its enactment in 2008, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has produced a wave of privacy-related...more

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Importance of CCPA Compliance Highlighted by First Round of Private Actions

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The first wave of California Consumer Privacy Act litigation has begun to roll in, and the complaints are already raising interesting questions about the scope of CCPA’s private right of action. The actions assert a variety...more

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Privacy Alert: Let the CCPA Class Action Lawsuits Commence

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The first post-California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) data breach class action was filed on February 3 in the Northern District of California. See Barnes v. Hanna Andersson, LLC , N.D. Cal., Case No. 20-cv-00812....more

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Will the New CCPA Cause an Uptick in Class Action Cases?

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Privacy remains a hotly debated subject in the U.S. and many states are taking steps to protect customer’s personal information.  The newest legislation with the most teeth belongs to California, who in February 2019 passed...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Biometric Privacy Update – Actual Harm Not Required

Since the passage of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in 2008, it has been used by plaintiffs’ attorneys to sue companies that use biometric identification technologies. Many BIPA cases have failed...more

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A New Employment Law Frontier: Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act

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An emerging area of the law has become the focal point in a new class action lawsuit pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In Baron v. Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc., et al. (No....more

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Litigation Alert: SCOTUS Grants Certiorari to Review Ninth Circuit’s Spokeo Decision Granting Standing To Enforce Statutory Rights...

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In an important move that may clarify standing in a variety of consumer cases, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 27, 2015 granted review in Robins v. Spokeo, Inc., 742 F.3d 409 (9th Cir. 2014), cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 323...more

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Burr Commentary: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Use Robins v. Spokeo to Finally Address “Standing” in the Absence of Actual Injury?

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Since the Constitution was ratified, 226 years ago, potential plaintiffs have been required to first establish that they have a “case or controversy” before a court can consider the merits of any legal claim. As the U.S....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Second Time’s the Charm? Supreme Court Takes Up Landmark FCRA Case to Address Whether Congress Can Create Standing

Zombie or no-injury plaintiffs seeking to represent zombie or no-injury classes are on the rise. In these suits, plaintiff was not injured, and there’s no way to prove who, if anyone, in the class was. Thomas Robins is one of...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Accepts Review of Robins v. Spokeo, Inc.

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The Supreme Court recently accepted review of one of the most talked about privacy class action and consumer cases of the past year, Robins v. Spokeo, Inc., No. 13-1339 (U.S.). The issue before the Court is whether Congress...more

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