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Legal Groups Back White Castle s 7th Circ. Bid To Curb BIPA
Law360 (April 6, 2021, 9:23 PM EDT) Legal groups representing the restaurant and retail industries have thrown their support behind White Castle, urging the Seventh Circuit to reverse a lower court s decision that Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act claims accrue with each violation instead of only the first violation.
The Restaurant Law Center and the Retail Litigation Center Inc. on Monday joined in an amicus brief saying the Illinois federal court s interpretation of BIPA in Latrina Cothron s suit against her former employer, White Castle System Inc., overreaches by holding that each unlawful finger scan can constitute a separate violation of the act, as can each wrongful instance of.
After wave of lawsuits, court clarifies definition of ‘automated telephone dialing system’
Restaurants no longer have to worry about violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, if they send a text message to a mobile phone number in their customer database for legitimate reasons.
The Supreme Court last week ruled unanimously to clarify what constitutes an automatic telephone dialing system, following a raft of class-action lawsuits against businesses, including several restaurants, that sent text messages using automated technology. The TCPA, which was created before the widespread use of mobile phones, was designed to prevent so-called “robocalls” from dialing emergency numbers or from tying up business lines.
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When Donald Trump took office in 2017, he installed a number of pro-business appointees to lead federal agencies tasked with protecting workers’ rights. But for the first two years of his administration, things continued more or less as normal at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the country’s sole workplace civil rights watchdog. Ami Sanghvi, now a lawyer at the Marek Law Firm, started as a trial attorney at the EEOC just after Barack Obama became president. Yet even during Trump’s first two years, she said, the agency was able “to do pretty great work.”1
Then, in May 2019, corporate lawyer Janet Dhillon was sworn in as Trump’s choice for the EEOC’s chair, and Sanghvi soon found the kinds of cases she could pursue restricted. It’s part of why she decided to leave the commission and go into private practice in January 2020.2