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Jonathan Bilyk

Reporter · US

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jonathan Bilyk

    State contractor exemption doesn’t shield UP from truckers’ IL fingerprint scan suit (opens the original)

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    CHICAGO — A group of potentially thousands of truck drivers can move ahead with a class action lawsuit accusing railroad operator Union Pacific of scanning their fingerprints, allegedly in violation of Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law, after a federal appeals panel agreed Union Pacific's contracts with Metra and other taxpayer-funded units of Illinois government don't protect it from a potentially big payout. On Sept. 30, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appea

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Jonathan Bilyk | Legal Newsline

    Uber can’t use widow to block suit over husband’s expressway death (opens the original)

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    (Legal Newsline) — Uber can’t use its user agreement to block a lawsuit from the widow of a man who died while riding in a rideshare vehicle on a Chicago expressway, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled. On Sept. 24, the state high court unanimously ruled Uber can’t send to arbitration the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of Mark Geller, who died in a 2022 crash. According to court documents and published reports, Geller was a passenger in a vehicle owned and driven by Ejaz Rathore,

  3. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Jonathan Bilyk | Legal Newsline

    Muslim doctors latest to challenge Illinois assisted suicide law (opens the original)

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    (Legal Newsline) — A group of Muslim doctors have joined their names to the growing list of medical professionals, health care organizations and others seeking to strike down Illinois’ state law creating a legal path for certain patients to take their lives through medically assisted suicide. On Sept. 16, attorneys from the religious freedom advocacy group the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed another lawsuit challenging Illinois’ new so-called medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law, seeki

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Jonathan Bilyk | Legal Newsline

    Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of license plate reader cameras (opens the original)

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    (Legal Newsline) — As debate intensifies across the U.S. over the ability of police and other government agencies to use license plate-reading cameras, a federal appeals court in Chicago later this month will serve as one of the latest flashpoints in the fight over whether the camera systems amount to unconstitutional and overreaching government surveillance. On Sept. 29, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over the hot legal questions, as civil l

  5. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Jonathan Bilyk

    Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras (opens the original)

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    CHICAGO — As debate intensifies across the U.S. over the ability of police and other government agencies to use license plate-reading cameras, a federal appeals court in Chicago later this month will serve as one of the latest flashpoints in the fight over whether the camera systems amount to unconstitutional and overreaching government surveillance. On Sept. 29, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over the hot legal questions, as civil libertie

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