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A Seventh Circuit panel said Friday that a federal judge was right to remand a biometric privacy lawsuit against an Illinois grocery chain to state court, citing a home-state exception in the Class Action Fairness Act and saying the chain waited too long to remove the case.

An Illinois federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss a former employee's proposed class action accusing an airport baggage handling company of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, saying the claims weren't preempted by federal aviation law or the state's workers' compensation statute.

An Illinois federal judge said Tuesday that she will allow written discovery to proceed as she decides whether to permanently dismiss claims that an American Airlines unit's time-tracking practices violated employees' biometric privacy and send the matter to an adjustment board.

Two Chicago residents who have accused Amazon, Microsoft and other tech giants of violating Illinois' landmark biometric privacy law by using a dataset containing geometric scans of their faces without their permission asked a Washington federal court on Friday to grant them class certification.

A transgender attorney wants the administrator of Illinois' attorney conduct board to declare that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is prohibited under the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, saying in a new lawsuit she routinely faces such discrimination from lawyers and judges.

An online exam proctoring company urged an Illinois federal judge Friday to toss a lawsuit accusing it of violating the state's landmark biometric privacy law, saying two Illinois college students' claims are barred because their universities are financial institutions protected by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

Illinois' top court upheld a win Thursday for a proposed class of homeowners accusing State Farm of automatically depreciating labor costs on top of the cost of materials when handling a property damage claim without disclosing the practice to policyholders, saying the policy is ambiguous and must therefore side with the insured.

Justices on Illinois' top court on Tuesday questioned whether a dispute over civil damages for injuries related to a settled workers' compensation claim is actually moot after the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed part of the civil suit.

A group of consumers asked an Illinois federal judge Friday to grant an initial sign-off to a nearly $8 million deal with Mar-Jac Poultry and a $3.3 million deal with Harrison Poultry to resolve claims that the companies engaged in a years-long scheme to fix chicken prices.

An Illinois federal judge has thrown out a proposed class action alleging that Northwestern University breached its contract with students when it shifted to virtual instruction in response to COVID-19, saying the school didn't promise in-person instruction to incoming students or create an implied contract in its communications with them.