BNSF Loses Illinois Biometric Privacy Lawsuit, Jury’s Verdict Exposes Railroad to up to $228 Million in Damages
- On October 14, 2022
By: Chloé G. Pedersen & Janet Gilbert On October 12, 2022, a Chicago jury today found that BNSF could be liable to over 44,000 truck drivers in Illinois for violation of state’s Biometric Information Privacy Law, exposing the railroad to up to $228 million in damages. The jury found BNSF violated the state’s privacy law by
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BNSF California Embargo
- On June 24, 2022
By James Helenhouse BNSF has announced its plan to embargo shipments of most non-intermodal commodities to all BNSF destinations in the state of California from origins or BNSF interchanges in fourteen states in the central, south central and southwestern U.S. There are limited commodity exceptions. The embargo announcement can be found at https://www.bnsf.com/news-media/customer-notifications/notification.page?notId=limited-embargo-of-certain-shipments-destined-for-california. In addition,
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