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United States: Seventh Circuit Tosses BIPA Class Action On Federal Labor Law Preemption Grounds - Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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20, 2021), that a cause of action filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by employees of Kerry, Inc., On September 20, 2021, the Seventh Circuit ruled in Fernandez v. Kerry, Inc., 21-1067 (7th Cir.

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Case of the Day: Scalin v. Société Nationale SNCF

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They have no claim under state law, since Illinois law (the law of the state where the court sat) had no claim against foreign nationals for foreign acts and, Judge Easterbrook suggested, since in any case a state lacks jurisdiction to regulate in such matters. The law seems clear, to me at least. But is the outcome a bad outcome?

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

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Father Marian Pieczonka alleged in his complaint that his young daughter Natalie was at the park in Gurnee, Illinois for the Halloween-themed Fright Fest when a park employee dressed in costume jumped out of a port-a-potty and shot her with a squirt gun. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the actions against the manufacturers.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

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Father Marian Pieczonka alleged in his complaint that his young daughter Natalie was at the park in Gurnee, Illinois for the Halloween-themed Fright Fest when a park employee dressed in costume jumped out of a port-a-potty and shot her with a squirt gun. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the actions against the manufacturers.

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Doe , 20-1374 , concerns whether Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which incorporates its enforcement mechanisms) provides a disparate-impact cause of action for plaintiffs alleging disability discrimination, and whether such claims can be based on facially neutral health-plan terms.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The District of Utah held that the lease suspensions merely maintained the status quo and therefore were not major federal actions subject to NEPA; the conservation groups therefore lacked standing. In addition, the defendants argued that the claims were not ripe, that the states lacked a cause of action, and that their claims were meritless.

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