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Gates v. Eagle Family Foods in the Northern District of Illinois, Gregory Gates, a former sanitation and assembly line employee, alleges that Eagle Foods collected and retained his handprints without consent as part of his timekeeping requirements while he worked at the Waukegan facility in 2016 and 2018.
Eagle Family Foods (Eagle Foods) says the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) does not apply to Gates’s claims of improper handprint collection because he is a former employee. Of course, Gates’s counsel argues that BIPA would apply even if Gates were a third-party worker not directly employed by Eagle.
Eagle Foods also argues that it did not “actively collect” Gates’ handprints, which it maintains is a requirement for there to be a violation under BIPA. Again, however, Gates’s counsel contends that Eagle Foods is liable under BIPA because it collected Gates’s biometric information in violation of the statute, stating, “Nothing in BIPA suggests that only ent
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CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge in Illinois dismissed a would-be biometric privacy class action after the plaintiff disappeared, saying plaintiff lawyers “skirted close to the line” of sanctions by pursuing the case without properly investigating the claims.
First Student moved for sanctions against lawyers at Stephan Zouras LLC after the school-bus operator determined that plaintiff Roxanne Brewton had never applied for work at the company, contradicting her claim First Student had violated her rights under the Illinois biometric privacy act by taking her fingerprints.
“The charade is up,” First Student said in an April 20 filing seeking Rule 11 sanctions against the lawyers. “First Student has been unjustly forced to defend a class action lawsuit brought by an individual who did not apply to First Student for employment as alleged, and who has subsequently abandoned her case.”