On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court held that an entity violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) each and every time it fails to fully comply with BIPA’s strenuous collection and...more
On February 2, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court weighed in and answered a question that had previously remained uncertain and hotly contested in recent years: how long is the statute of limitations for claims under the...more
On February 3, 2022, the Illinois Supreme Court held in the case of McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park, LLC, 2022 IL 126511, that the exclusivity provisions of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Compensation...more
Since the Illinois Supreme Court held in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. in 2019 that a plaintiff need not show actual injury to bring an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) claim in state court,...more
On March 20, 2020, the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District issued its decision in the case of West Bend Mutual Insurance Company v. Krishna Schaumburg Tan, Inc., 2020 IL App (1st) 191834, 2020 WL 191834, a...more
On Friday, January 25, 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court sharpened the teeth of the Biometric Information Privacy Act (the “Act”). The Court ruled in favor of protecting the privacy of an individual’s biometric identifiers,...more