April 18, 2024
An Illinois federal judge gave his early blessing Wednesday to a nearly $550,000 settlement between global food supplier Rich Products Corp. and hundreds of current and former employees who claimed the company illegally collected and used their scanned fingerprint data.
August 22, 2023
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Rich Products Corp. must face a proposed class action alleging the food supplier improperly stored employees' fingerprints in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, saying recent rulings from the state Supreme Court have resolved several key issues in the case.
October 06, 2020
Rich Products Corp. is urging an Illinois federal judge to throw out allegations it violated the state's biometric privacy law, saying the claims are preempted by the state workers' compensation statute despite a recent appellate court ruling that rejected that argument.