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The Illinois Supreme Court's long-awaited decision on how often biometric privacy claims accrue dealt a blow to defendants facing massive potential damage awards and ultimately left it to trial courts and state lawmakers to strike a balance between compensating privacy plaintiffs and protecting companies from financial ruin.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that Biometric Information Privacy Act claims accrue each time data is unlawfully collected and disclosed rather than simply the first time, a ruling that will almost certainly add to Illinois' already heavy privacy docket and that the defense bar has warned could lead to astronomical damages.

The Illinois Supreme Court's long-awaited decision on how often biometric privacy claims accrue dealt a blow to defendants facing massive potential damage awards and ultimately left it to trial courts and state lawmakers to strike a balance between compensating privacy plaintiffs and protecting companies from financial ruin.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that Biometric Information Privacy Act claims accrue each time data is unlawfully collected and disclosed rather than simply the first time, a ruling that will almost certainly add to Illinois' already heavy privacy docket and that the defense bar has warned could lead to astronomical damages.

Four blood plasma donors have asked an Illinois federal judge to grant preliminary approval to a roughly $16.7 million deal resolving claims that three companies operating plasma donation centers in Illinois violated their rights under the state's biometric privacy law.

A Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday pushed a supplements company to explain why it did not put up experts at trial to prove dozens of illustrations were really just two copyrighted works, in the company's second attempt to throw out a $3.6 million verdict for infringing the drawings' copyright.

A one-time financial officer for now-defunct Girardi Keese pled not guilty Thursday to charges of wire fraud and contempt in Chicago federal court in a case accusing him of helping now-disbarred firm founder Tom Girardi misappropriate millions of dollars from clients' settlement proceeds.

Executives of the once-celebrated Chicago tech startup Outcome Health grew it into a company worth billions by lying to lenders and investors, cherry-picking or exaggerating data, and silencing employees who raised concerns, prosecutors told a Chicago federal jury Monday.

The Seventh Circuit's chief judge said Wednesday the plain text of Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations forecloses 3Red Trading's former chief risk officer from a whistleblower award for helping the agency pursue spoofing claims against his ex-employer.

A Pennsylvania law firm specializing in debt relief services has been hit with a putative class action in Colorado federal court alleging it used prerecorded robocalls to solicit clients in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.