September 21, 2021
The Seventh Circuit will not revive a lawsuit from a group of former workers for an Illinois food producer claiming their employer unlawfully collected their fingerprints without consent, saying the dispute doesn't belong in court because it concerns interpretation of labor contracts.
September 14, 2021
The Seventh Circuit suggested during oral argument Tuesday that a lower court rightly applied a Railway Labor Act preemption ruling to find a group of union-represented employees' biometric privacy claims similarly blocked under the Labor Management Relations Act.
September 10, 2021
The Seventh Circuit will hear two cases on Tuesday that could dramatically change the scope and path of litigation under Illinois's landmark biometric privacy law, and the Illinois Supreme Court will hear arguments involving one of the most frequently raised defenses to such claims just weeks later.