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Mayfield BIPA Settlement

Hughes v. Mayfield Care Center, LLC
No. 2018-CH-13122 (Cir. Ct. Cook Cnty., Ill.)

You may be entitled to a cash payment from a Class Action Settlement if you scanned your finger for timekeeping purposes while working at Mayfield Care Center at any time since October 22, 2013.

The court has authorized notice of a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit, Hughes v. Mayfield Care Center, LLC, No. 2018-CH-13122, pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois before the Honorable Judge Thaddeus L. Wilson. The Settlement would resolve a lawsuit brought on behalf of persons who allege that Mayfield Care Center, LLC (“Defendant”) implemented a timekeeping system that required Defendant’s employees to provide a scan of their finger or fingerprint for timekeeping purposes without allegedly complying with the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS § 14/1, et seq. (“BIPA”). The Court has granted preliminary approval of the Settlement and has preliminarily certified the Settlement Class for purposes of settlement only. This website explains your options and deadlines under the Settlement, so please review it carefully.

BIPA prohibits private entities from capturing, obtaining, storing, transferring, and/or using biometric identifiers and/or biometric information, such as fingerprints, of an individual for any purpose, including timekeeping, without first providing such individual with certain written disclosures and obtaining written consent. This lawsuit alleges that Defendant violated BIPA by allegedly collecting individuals’ biometric identifiers when they used Defendant’s timekeeping system in Illinois without first providing the required disclosures or obtaining the required consent. Defendant contests these claims and denies that it violated BIPA.

To resolve this matter without the expense, delay, and uncertainties of litigation, the Parties have reached a Settlement, which resolves all claims against Defendant and its affiliated entities. The Settlement provides for Defendant to pay money to the Settlement Class, as well as pay the Settlement Administrator’s expenses, attorneys’ fees and costs to Class Counsel, and a Service Award to the Class Representative, if approved by the Court. The Settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by Defendant and does not imply that there has been, or would be, any finding that Defendant violated the law.

Summary of Your Rights and Options

Accept the Settlement

To receive payment from the Settlement Fund, you do not have to do anything. If the Court approves the Settlement, the Settlement Administrator will automatically send a check to your last known mailing address.

Exclude yourself

— Deadline: July 25, 2025

You may exclude yourself from the Settlement. If you do so, you will not receive any cash payment, but you will not release any claims you may have against the Released Parties (as that term is defined in the Settlement Agreement) and are free to pursue whatever legal rights you may have by pursuing your lawsuit against the Released Parties at your own risk and expense. To exclude yourself from the Settlement, you must mail a signed letter to the Settlement Administrator at Mayfield BIPA Settlement, PO Box 2002, Chanhassen, MN 55317-2002, postmarked by JULY 25, 2025. You may also submit a request for exclusion online by JULY 25, 2025. The exclusion letter must state that you exclude yourself from this Settlement and must include the name and case number of this Litigation, as well as your full name, address, telephone number, and email address, and a statement that you wish to be excluded from the Settlement Agreement.

Object

— Deadline: July 25, 2025

If you wish to object to the Settlement, you must submit your objection in writing to the Clerk of the Court of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, 50 W. Washington Street, #802, Chicago, IL 60602. The objection must be postmarked no later than JULY 25, 2025. You must also send a copy of your objection to the attorneys for all Parties to the lawsuit, including Class Counsel (Evan M. Meyers, Brendan Duffner, and Joseph M. Dunklin of McGuire Law, P.C., 55 W. Wacker Drive, 9th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60601), as well as Defendant’s Counsel (Michael Jacobsen and Paul Yovanic of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 233 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 8000, Chicago, IL 60606), postmarked no later than JULY 25, 2025. Any objection to the proposed Settlement must include your (i) full name, address, telephone number, and email address; (ii) the case name and number of this Litigation; (iii) all grounds for the objection, with factual and legal support for the stated objection, including any supporting materials; (iv) the identification of any other objections you have filed, or have had filed on your behalf, in any other class action cases in the last four years; and (v) your signature. If you hire an attorney in connection with making an objection, that attorney must also file with the Court a notice of appearance by the objection deadline of JULY 25, 2025. If you do hire your own attorney, you will be solely responsible for payment of any fees and expenses the attorney incurs on your behalf. If you exclude yourself from the Settlement, you cannot file an objection.

You may appear at the Final Approval Hearing, which will be held on October 23, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. in Courtroom 2307 of the Circuit Court of Cook County, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago, Illinois 60602, and via remote means (Zoom meeting ID: 87687298501; Pass: 926987) (or at such other time or location as the Court may without further notice direct and which shall be identified on the Settlement Website), in person or through counsel to show cause why the proposed Settlement should not be approved as fair, reasonable, and adequate. Participating in the hearing is not necessary; however, persons wishing to be heard orally in opposition to the Final Approval of the Settlement, the request for attorneys’ fees and expenses, and/or the request for a Service Award to the Class Representative are required to indicate in their written objection their intention to appear at the hearing on their own behalf or through counsel and to identify the names of any witnesses they intend to call to testify at the Final Approval Hearing, as well as any exhibits they intend to introduce at the Final Approval Hearing. The hearing date and time is subject to change by the Court, so please check the Settlement Website for updates.

These rights and options – and the deadlines to exercise them – are explained further in the detailed Notice and on the FAQ page of this website.