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'Floodgates have officially opened': IL employers facing new lawsuit blitz under state's genetic info privacy law
Thousands of Illinois employers have faced potentially financially catastrophic class actions under the state's biometric privacy law. Now, a new raft of class actions appears to be arriving under a different law, the Genetic Information Privacy Act
IL courts, reform advocates agree: Time is now for IL Supreme Court to rein in lawmakers' constitutional 'lapses'
A flurry of lawsuits ask the Illinois Supreme Court to follow through on its longstanding threat to stop allowing lawmakers to police themselves in deciding whether they have followed the Illinois state constitution when passing sweeping new laws, like the so-called "assault weapons" ban
Standing alone: IL Supreme Court's unique retire-and-replace system lets justices all but pick replacements
This fall, voters in much of northern and central Illinois will have a rare opportunity: To elect two Illinois Supreme Court justices and possibly flip the court's partisan balance. Currently, six of the state's seven Supreme Court justices were initially appointed by the court after other justices retired, allowing some appointees the power of incumbency when they face election.
Fear & Politics: Judges, lawyers reluctant to defend rights vs guv's, mayors' emergency power amid pandemic
Why have judges and lawyers - including those who bill themselves as defenders of civil liberties - largely deferred to the widespread use of emergency executive power by governors, mayors and others, throughout the Covid pandemic, despite constitutional questions?
Hard time fighting back: Employers seek defenses vs rising biometrics class actions, emboldened settlement demands
A January Illinois Supreme Court decision effectively ended employers' efforts to use Illinois' workers' comp law to beat biometrics class actions, and may have emboldened the plaintiff’s bar to seek even higher settlements
'The way due process is supposed to work': Ill. Supreme Court decision reshapes state's legal landscape
Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court moved to significantly limit general personal jurisdiction over corporations, the Illinois Supreme Court at last has used that precedent to perhaps achieve legal venue reforms long sought by business groups and reform proponents - and long ignored by state lawmakers.
Shops hit with ADA accessibility lawsuits likely to be targets of 'serial litigators'
CHICAGO - Earlier in the year, Margie Milovich’s neighbor had been hit with a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act. But she said it still didn’t prepare her for the moment the same plaintiff delivered a similar lawsuit to the door of LaSalle Flowers, a family-owned River North flower shop at 731 N.
FLSA Rising: Ever-shifting wage, hour standards promise to keep employers, lawyers struggling to keep up with law
(CHICAGO) Legal Newsline - The increase of wage and hour lawsuits being filed in Chicago federal courts in the last 25 years is reflective of a national trend. And with two new notifications from the U.S.