Matters
- Represented a fast food franchisor in Cook County, Illinois, in a class action lawsuit in which the 1,148 class members alleged the franchisor’s automated system of clocking in and clocking out using a thumbprint scanner to unlock point of sales machines was not compliant with BIPA.
- Represented skilled nursing facilities in four BIPA class action lawsuits. Three lawsuits were filed in the Illinois Circuit Court in Cook County, and one was filed in DuPage County. In all four cases, the plaintiffs are former employees who allege that the defendants collected their biometric information through the use of timekeeping machines that required a fingerprint or handprints to clock in and clock out of work.
- Served as oversight counsel in a BIPA class action case pending in Cook County, Illinois, filed against a client that hosts facial recognition software enabling security and surveillance personnel to capture images and compare them to pictures already in intelligence databases. The claims in the lawsuit arising from the provisions of BIPA that govern retaining biometric information, disclosure to employees and the disclosure of biometric information to third parties.
