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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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$228M Damages Award Vacated In Illinois Biometric Privacy Class Action

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In the closely-watched first case to go to trial under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a federal judge has now vacated a $228 million award of statutory liquidated damages. The judge concluded that...more

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The Hits Keep Coming: Illinois Supreme Court Finds Claims Accrue Upon Each Scan or Transmission Under BIPA

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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

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BIPA Class Actions – 2022 Round-Up

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Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) class action lawsuits were heavily litigated again in 2022, as plaintiffs continued to target companies using biometric technology and their vendors. At the same time,...more

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The Top 17 Workplace Law Stories from February 2022

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Holds Workers’ Compensation Act Does Not Bar BIPA Claims

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Illinois Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park, LLC, et al., 2022 IL 126511 (Feb. 3, 2022), holding that claims for statutory damages against an...more

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Seventh Circuit Sends BIPA Claim Accrual Question To Illinois Supreme Court

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Seyfarth Synopsis: This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in Cothron v. White Castle Sys., No. 20-3202, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 37593 (7th Cir. Dec. 20, 2021), on whether...more

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Seventh Circuit Continues String of Insurer Victories in COVID-19 Business Interruption Litigation

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At least five Circuit Courts of Appeal have now come out in favor of insurers in COVID-19 business interruption lawsuits. The latest is the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Sandy Point Dental, P.C. v. Cincinnati Ins. Co.,...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Affirms BIPA Lawsuits Are Covered by GL Policies

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The deluge of lawsuits brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), 740 ILCS 14 et seq. over the past several years has presented a challenge to companies operating in Illinois. Not surprisingly,...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Finds Insurance Coverage for Alleged Violations of BIPA

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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled late last week in favor of a company seeking insurance coverage for defense of a lawsuit alleging the company had violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA). The ruling in the case,...more

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BIPA in Review: Recapping the Seventh Circuit’s Article III Standing Decisions

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Last Thursday, the Seventh Circuit issued its fourth opinion in two years addressing Article III standing in the context of Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The court handed the plaintiff in Thornley v....more

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Increasing Exposure for Insurers and Employers as Courts Strike Workers’ Comp Bar to BIPA Claims

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Litigation under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has expanded tenfold. Although the statute was enacted 12 years ago, litigation under its private cause of action has spiked in more recent years partly...more

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Facebook BIPA Class Settlement Receives Preliminary Approval

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On August 19, 2020, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval of the class action settlement in In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation,...more

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If COVID-19 Is Brought Home From Work— Can Lawsuit Follow?

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Employers, landlords and any party potentially subject to a premises liability action would be well advised to consider the consequences when COVID-19 is contracted on their property and then spread from the infected party to...more

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Mooting Monster Class Actions: Illinois Supreme Court Decision Provides Framework For Employers

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Seyfarth Synopsis:  The Illinois Supreme Court recently affirmed a state appellate court’s holding that in class action lawsuits, an effective tender made before a named plaintiff files a class certification motion satisfies...more

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Finding Article III Standing, Ninth Circuit Declines to Do an About-Face in Illinois Biometric Privacy Class Action against...

In an important opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that plaintiffs in the ongoing Facebook biometric privacy class action have alleged a concrete injury-in-fact to confer Article III standing and that...more

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What To Do Next With Biometric Information in Illinois?

With the Illinois Supreme Court’s recent decision in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp., the floodgates have opened for class actions in Illinois against businesses that collect biometric information from employees or...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2019

In this month's edition, we examine cybersecurity-related state Supreme Court rulings in Pennsylvania, Vermont and Illinois; the Department of Health and Human Services' cybersecurity guidelines for the health care industry;...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Finds Actual Harm Unnecessary for Standing in Biometric Privacy Case

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In a unanimous decision, the court wrote that Rosenbach’s son can be considered an “aggrieved person” under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) based on a technical violation of the statute and without...more

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Biometric Suits Continue, Including Recent Action Against IoT Company

Last December, we noted the continuing robust wave of Illinois biometric privacy suits. At that time, dozens of suits had been filed in Illinois state court against Illinois-based employers and other businesses alleging...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Illinois Appellate Court Reinstates Biometric Privacy Action, Finding Potential Harm in Alleged Disclosure of Fingerprint to...

Late last month, an Illinois appellate court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of biometric privacy claims against a tanning salon franchisee that had collected the plaintiff’s fingerprint to allow entry in its own salon and...more

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Illinois Biometric Privacy Suit over Employee Fingerprinting Remanded for Lack of Standing

An Illinois district court remanded to state court for lack of standing a biometric privacy suit brought by employees over the collection and storage of individuals’ fingerprints allegedly in violation of the Illinois...more

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Biometrics: Illinois Supreme Court to Decide Whether Injury is Required for Biometric Information Privacy Act Claims

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On May 30, 2018, the Illinois Supreme Court accepted an appeal from an Illinois appellate court’s decision rejecting “no-injury” lawsuits under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) [Dkt. No. 123186]. The...more

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