Class Action Blog

The Supreme Court of Illinois ruled that the Rosenbach class action suit could proceed after finding that the plaintiff was an “aggrieved person” entitled to “seek liquidated damages and injunctive relief” for violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act (Act) (740 ILCS 14/1 et seq.) without also alleging “some actual injury or adverse effect, beyond violation of his or her rights under the statute.” The court was not particularly concerned whether it was following the Supreme Court’s holding in Spokeo since the Illinois high court was addressing an Illinois statute.