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Illinois Supreme Court rules on legal client confidentiality, BIPA cases

By Grace Barbic gbarbic@lawbulletinmedia.com

Trial Notebook

By Steven P. Garmisa

Hoey & Farina

Posted November 30, 2023 12:07 PM

Updated December 4, 2023 1:44 PM

The Illinois Supreme Court published 17 opinions Thursday, including highly anticipated rulings on disclosure of legal client health information and an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class action on the protections of healthcare workers’ information.Opinions in 10 criminal cases were also issued Thursday. Client privacy In Doe v. Burke Wise Morrissey & Kaveny, LLC, 2023 IL 129097, the high court found that a man does not have a cause of action against his attorney and her law firm for disclosing the …

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R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case May 8, 2019. A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the singer’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in his Chicago case.

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Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party in 2021 in Buffalo, N.Y. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case filed by Starbucks against the National Labor Relations Board, which raised the issue of courts granting temporary injunctions sought by the agency.

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State Rep. Anna Moeller (right), D-Elgin, speaks on the House floor during debate on her bill to enact several reforms to the state’s insurance industry. The bill is an initiative of Gov. JB Pritzker, who is seated behind Moeller. The measure passed with bipartisan support.

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