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This Notice explains the lawsuit, the Settlement, and your legal rights. Judge Marvin E. Aspen of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois is overseeing this class action. The Case is called Vaughan et al. v. Biomat et al., No. 20-cv-04241.Brian R. Vaughan v. Biomat USA, Inc. et al, No. 1:2020cv04241 - Document 70 (N.D. Ill. 2022) :: Justia. Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Illinois › …The lawsuit was brought on behalf of named plaintiff Brian R. Vaughan, identified only as an Illinois resident who donated plasma at the companies’ donation sites. The plaintiffs are seeking to expand the lawsuit to include a class of potentially everyone who has donated at a Biomat or Talecris plasma collection site in Illinois in the past ...Plaintiffs Fredy Sosa and Rohith Amruthur (“Plaintiffs”) provide the following information pursuant to the Court’s March 21, 2023 Order (dkt. 68) and attached the Parties’ proposed Amended Class Action Settlement Agreement (“Amended Agreement”) as Exhibit 1. For the Court’s convenience, Plaintiffs have also attached a redlined ...Biomat offers a payment scale for returning donors, where the payment for each donation is $40. In contrast, BioLife offers compensation between $25 and $75 per donation based on weight, with the potential for higher earnings. Therefore, BioLife generally pays more than Biomat for plasma donations, with the exact difference in earnings ...In P.M., et al. v. OpenAI LP, No. 3:2023-CV-03199 (N.D. Cal. 2023), a group of plaintiffs filed a class action suit against OpenAI LP and Microsoft, Inc. alleging that by collecting publicly-available information from the internet to develop and train its generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Vall-E, OpenAI stole private ...Nearly 2 years after Equifax disclosed a massive hack, the credit reporting agency has agreed to a settlement. Here's how to file a claim. Almost two years after a massive data bre...Rivera, et al. v. Google LLC Class Action Settlement. If, At Any Time Between May 1, 2015 And April 25, 2022, You Appeared In a Photograph In Google Photos While You Were An Illinois Resident, You May Be Entitled To Get a Payment From a Class Action Settlement. Verify my ClaimIn Hyland, et al. v. Navient Corp., 48 F.4th 110 (2d Cir. 2022), the Second Circuit confronted a similar issue in the context of a non-monetary settlement and reached the opposite result. The plaintiffs, a group of public servants with loans that the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program did not forgive, filed suit claiming that the ...The case we discuss today, Vaughan v. Biomat USA, Inc., 2022 WL 4329094 (N.D. Ill. 2022), is neither a medical-device nor a pharmaceutical case. Nor is it …Biomat, Talecris Plasma and Interstate Blood Bank are plasma donation centers. All three of these centers are part of Grifols , a network of plasma donation centers around the country. The plasma defendants haven’t admitted any wrongdoing but agreed to a $16.75 million class action settlement to resolve the BIPA allegations.MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER MARVIN E. ASPEN District Judge. Plaintiffs Brian R. Vaughan Jason Darnell Febbie Minniefield and...20220920b36By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. , Jennifer A. Riley, and Alex W. Karasik. Duane Morris Takeaways: In Vaughan v. Biomat USA, Inc. et al, Case No. 20-CV-4241, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168497 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 19, 2022), Judge Marvin Aspen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued the latest plaintiff-friendly decision under ...The Guidance is open to public comment through November 1, 2023; if issued in final form, it will mark the first update to the EEOC’s official harassment guidance in nearly 25 years. For employers, the Guidance is a “must read” in terms of preventing future workplace harassment claims. Workplace Harassment In The Digital Landscape.In Vaughan v. Biomat USA, Inc., No. 20-cv-04241 (N.D. Ill.), the plaintiffs alleged that each time they donated plasma at one of defendants’ Illinois-based centers they were required to scan at least one fingerprint into the companies’ biometric systems. They claim that the defendants used the biometric data to identify and track donors but ...By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer A. Riley, and Emilee N. Crowther. Duane Morris Takeaways: In Brown v.Learfield Communications, LLC, et al., No. 1:23-CV-00374, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15587 (W.D. Tex. Jan. 29, 2024), Judge David A. Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted Defendants Learfield …There are five main settlement patterns: compact settlement, scattered settlement, ordered settlement, linear settlement and nodal settlement. A settlement pattern is the way a pop...By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. , Jennifer A. Riley, and Alex W. Karasik. Duane Morris Takeaways: In Vaughan v. Biomat USA, Inc. et al, Case No. 20-CV-4241, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168497 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 19, 2022), Judge Marvin Aspen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued the latest plaintiff-friendly decision under ...Brian R. Vaughan v. Biomat USA, Inc. et al, (N.D. Ill. 2022) (MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER: For the reasons stated herein, the motion to stay 14 is granted. The Court stays these proceedings pending the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in Tims v. Black Horse Carriers, Inc., Case No. 1-20-0563 (1st Dist.).Judge Oetken initially granted class certification in 2020 under Rule 23(b)(3) in Haley v. Teachers Ins. & Annuity Ass’n of Am., 337 F.R.D. 462 (S.D.N.Y. 2020). However, the Second Circuit vacated the ruling and remanded the case on the grounds that the district court had erred in assessing whether Rule 23’s predominance requirement had ...

By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Sean P. McConnell. Duane Morris Takeaways: On March 26, 2024, Judge Stephen R. Bough of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri denied HomeServices of America’s (“HomeServices”) motion to decertify a class of home sellers alleging that that Defendants violated the Sherman Act by …Plasma donors Brian Vaughan and Jason Darnell accused the plasma centers in their June lawsuit of using finger-scanning devices to track donors without making public the retention and destruction schedules for the biometric information. The companies also failed to make certain disclosures and obtain written releases, Vaughan alleged in …The case, Rogers v. BNSF Railway Co., was filed in May 2019 and was pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. A class was certified in March 2022. ... BIPA litigation has a history of large settlements powered by an uncapped statutory damages provision that can be invoked for even technical violations of the ...Biomat, Talecris Plasma and Interstate Blood Bank are plasma donation centers. All three of these centers are part of Grifols , a network of plasma donation centers around the country. The plasma defendants haven’t admitted any wrongdoing but agreed to a $16.75 million class action settlement to resolve the BIPA allegations.

By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer A. Riley, and Michael DeMarino. Duane Morris Takeaways – In Chalmers, et al. v. City of New York, 22 Civ. 3389 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2022), Judge Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court recently certified a Title VII class action alleging race discrimination in pay for various positions involving fire protection …Duane Morris Takeaway: This week’s episode of the Class Action Weekly Wire features Duane Morris partners Jerry Maatman and Shireen Wetmore with their discussion of the $36 million settlement approved last week resolving claims from multiple cases in both federal and California state court challenging an employer’s wage and hour ……

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