FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Philippe Melin, Executive Director (224) 250-8974 pmelin@cala.com Illinois Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse Applauds BIPA Reform But Urge Lawmakers to Go Even Further to Protect Small Businesses (SPRINGFIELD)—Yesterday, the Illinois Senate proposed and passed bipartisan changes to Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Illinois Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (IL-CALA) has urged lawmakers to reform BIPA throughout the years as this law has had a devastating impact on our state’s business community since…
A small, but growing, group of law firms from Chicago – but increasingly from out of state, as well – has been growing rich off of class action lawsuits under Illinois’ biometrics privacy law, as a spate of recent court decisions have all but forced employers and other businesses operating in Illinois that have been targeted by the lawsuits to collectively pay billions of dollars to settle, or risk even worse financial damage in court,…
