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Illinois Legislative Update: BIPA Reform Bill Reducing Damages Approved by Illinois House, Awaiting ...
JD Supra· 1 day agoIn a significant legislative development, the Illinois House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved Senate Bill 2979, with a vote of 81 to 30, which amends the < ...
Illinois AG Backs Off Crackdown On Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
IJR· 23 hours agoDemocratic Attorney General Kwame Raoul of Illinois announced Monday that he filed a motion agreeing not to enforce a state law that targeted pregnancy centers for using alleged ...
Frustration mounting for tenants of apartment complex in downtown Springfield
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoWhen George Ryan was still governor, there was a plan for the State of Illinois to buy both the...
Illinois bill could change how your biometric data is protected
WHBF Davenport via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA bill in Illinois could change how your medical information is protected. The bill would require...
Illinois Legislature to Amend BIPA to Overrule Illinois Supreme Court Damages Decision
The National Law Review· 2 days agoAs covered extensively here on PW, last year in Cothron v. White Castle, the Illinois Supreme Court held that an individual person accrues a separate statutory ...
Illinois Legislature Passes Bill Amending BIPA Violation Accrual Standards | JD Supra
JD Supra· 1 day agoSB2979 was passed a year after the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a violation occurs each time a company swipes a person’s biometrics without consent ...
Illinois legislature approves measure to amend state biometric privacy law
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Illinois House passed legislation aimed at reining in the potential for runaway damages under...
BIPA Reform on the Horizon: Illinois Legislature Passes Significant Legislation Eliminating Per-Scan...
JD Supra· 2 days agoSB2979 amends BIPA to address the troubling trend of litigants seeking...basis that exceed six-figures for a single individual. To the contrary, per-scan damages were green-lit by the
Red Stars want an assist
Politico· 22 hours agoSupreme Court won’t consider Maryland assault weapon ban, but Illinois’ is still on the table, by Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr — Coal ash is polluting
Editorial: Stop this proposed tower of toxic waste on Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline
Chicago Tribune· 1 day agoCorps of Engineers. The purpose of the transaction was to construct and operate a repository on 45...