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Facial recognition technology company Clearview AI has agreed to a nationwide injunction blocking most private entities from accessing its database of faceprints in a deal resolving claims by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups that its practices violate Illinois' biometric privacy law.
The company behind Welch's Fruit Snacks claims its business will be "decimated" if an Illinois state court doesn't force a supplier of a key ingredient to fulfill its contractual obligations, saying it's been forced to operate at reduced capacity in recent weeks and could soon lose relationships with major retailers and be forced to lay off at least 200 employees.
An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced the former mayor of a Chicago suburb to a year and a day in prison for taking a bribe from the representative of a red-light camera company doing business in his village and for filing a false tax return.
In Law360's occasional roundup of Chicago lawyers' latest moves, Crowell & Moring has hired a brand protection litigator, Benesch has promoted and added new partners in the intellectual property and corporate spaces and Ballard Spahr has nabbed a patent litigator.
Illinois' top court held Thursday that former Chicago Bears player Richard Dent can't use presuit discovery to learn the identities of an Exelon subsidiary's employees who allegedly defamed him, saying their statements were privileged because they were made in the context of a workplace investigation.