Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 1, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the 2024 amendment to Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), limiting damages, applies retroactively to pending cases. The ruling in Clay v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Docket No. 25-2185 (7th Cir. 2026), represents a major win for...

Aaron Graf of  Amundsen Davis LLC writes: Under Wisconsin law, employees must first be the victim of identity theft or other concrete, imminent harm to have standing to sue employer for data breach. Mere risk of future data misuse is not enough to establish standing. […] A recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision, though unpublished,...