Class actions accusing companies of violating Illinois’s biometric privacy law have more than doubled in the wake of a February Illinois Supreme Court ruling that expanded the potential for high damage awards.
The number of lawsuits in Illinois circuit courts alleging violations of the 2008 Biometric Information Protection Act jumped 65%, to 122 cases, during the two months following the Feb. 17 Cothron v. White Castle System Inc. decision, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of dockets through April 17.
A total of 74 lawsuits were filed in the two months prior to that decision, between Dec. 17 and ...
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