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How Some States Are Responding to the Worst Attack on Voting Rights in Decades
Capital B via Yahoo News· 24 minutes agoBobby Joe Champion, the mission was obvious: He had to do something to bolster protections against...
Frustration mounting for tenants of apartment complex in downtown Springfield
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoWhen George Ryan was still governor, there was a plan for the State of Illinois to buy both the...
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· 1 day 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 ...
Courting the Nikki Haley ‘Zombie’ Voters
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoLast month, 16.6 percent...Pennsylvania primary voters, 158,178 people checked the box for the former ambassador and South Carolinagovernor in the...
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 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 approves measure to amend state biometric privacy law
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Illinois House passed legislation aimed at reining in the potential for runaway damages under...
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 ...
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