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An Illinois federal judge sent the first jury to hear a case under the state's biometric privacy law out of the courtroom Friday in the middle of a BNSF employee's testimony, scolding him for giving multiple nonresponsive answers and at one point telling the witness to "wipe the smirk" from his face.
A BNSF Railway executive testified Thursday that the railroad had the authority to direct a vendor to stop collecting finger scans from truck drivers at its rail yard when it was first sued over alleged biometric privacy violations, but didn't do so for nearly a year.
BNSF Railway can't avoid liability in the first case under Illinois' landmark biometric privacy law to go to trial by pointing to the vendor it hired to scan truck drivers' fingerprints, because the railroad was ultimately calling the shots, an Illinois federal jury heard Tuesday.
An Illinois federal judge on Monday refused to exclude evidence, testimony, or arguments suggesting that BNSF Railway can be held liable under the state's biometric privacy law for actions of third parties at trial next month, saying the law's language is broad enough to encompass entities hiring someone else to obtain biometric data on its behalf.
An Illinois federal jury had sufficient evidence to conclude a former Freeborn & Peters partner engaged in a scheme to defraud his client's creditors, despite a district judge acquitting him of wire fraud following jurors' guilty verdict last year, the federal government told the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday.