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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.