On January 25, 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court held that plaintiffs can assert claims and recover statutory damages under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) based on a bare violation of the statute without...more
On April 24, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court held that ambiguous arbitration provisions cannot be used to compel class arbitration. Lamps Plus v. Varela, No. 17-988, 2019 WL 1780275 (April 24, 2019). This 5-4 decision expands on...more
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On January 25, 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court held that plaintiffs can assert claims and recover statutory damages under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) based on a bare violation of the statute without...more