BNSF Hit With $228M Judgment In First BIPA Trial

By Celeste Bott (October 12, 2022, 3:14 PM EDT) -- A Chicago federal jury on Wednesday found BNSF Railway violated Illinois' landmark biometric privacy law in the first such case to go to trial, handing a win to a class of more than 44,000 truck drivers and forcing the railroad to pony up $228 million in damages....

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