In the latest in a series of setbacks for employers facing claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) (740 ILCS 14 et seq.), the Supreme Court of Illinois held.
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving workers compensation and the state’s Biometric Information Privacy.
In a February 3, 2022 decision in Marquita McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park LLC, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that employee claims for damages for violations of their statutory.
Illinois Supreme Court held that the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act does not preempt BIPA claims for statutory damages brought by employees. The Court’s holding in McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park, LLC, et al. was not unexpected by most BIPA practitioners.
Takeaway: Last year, we reported on a Seventh Circuit decision endorsing a “no injury” pleading strategy for violations of Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The.