JD Supra

BIPA class actions: Seventh Circuit endorses pleading strategy calculated to avoid removal to federal court

Takeaway: As Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit recently observed in a putative class action alleging violations of Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy ...
JD Supra

Blackmailer Beware: Seventh Circuit Disgorges Class Objectors' Inequitable Settlement Proceeds

The Seventh Circuit held last Thursday that individuals who object to a class action settlement voluntarily assume a limited fiduciary duty to other class members, which they can breach by settling ...
The Fresno Bee

Fresno middle school class hacked online with explicit message. District investigating

A seventh-grade online class was hacked Friday morning with an explicit message, Fresno Unified officials confirmed. The class at Computech Middle School was interrupted around 10 a.m., Trustee Terry ...
Washington Examiner

Seventh Circuit revives class action over payday loans, calls arbitration clause ‘unconscionable’ and process ‘a sham’

CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – An embattled provider of online payday loans who allegedly used his standing as a member of a Sioux Indian tribe to tailor loan agreement terms to skirt state and federal ...