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'They are seeking the return of money that they contend was unlawfully taken,' appellate justices said of the class action claims against the city of Chicago they said were wrongly tossed by a Cook County judge
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The Illinois First District Appellate Court said the Chicago Transit Authority wasn't wrong to terminate pension benefits to a lawyer who was attempting to amass a combined pension payout of more than $105,000 per year by essentially double-counting 20 years of service at the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to boost his CTA pension
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An appeals court has confirmed NorthShore University HealthSystem did not have to bill Medicare for an accident victim's medical tab, before putting a lien on a third-party's insurance company.
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After a judge rejected their arguments earlier this spring, Apple opted to quit the episode, rather than continue to try to resume their lawsuit claiming the city's 9% amusement tax was unconstitutional and illegal
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The courts said the state's sovereign immunity extends to claims against private entities that later became state-owned
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Parties settled at $6 million to end the lawsuit that dates back to a 1998 attack on the hockey coach by a stepson of one of the hockey club board members. But a Cook County judge and an Illinois appeals panel ruled policy limits must stay in place, limiting the insurance company's payout
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Couple now suing Abbott Laboratories already won $18.5M jury verdict against doctors who prescribed the anticonvulsant Depakote
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The state's high court has allowed an appeal from a worker at Roosevelt University, who is seeking to lead a class action lawsuit against his employer under Illinois' biometrics privacy law, but was blocked when a state appeals court said his union CBA meant he couldn't sue
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The court determined the Illinois State Board of Elections improperly removed Republicans Susan Hutchinson and Mark Curran, and Democrat Nancy Rodkin Rotering, from the ballot by incorrectly calculating petition signature requirements under the law
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The Illinois Attorney General's office alleges certain staffing firms conspired to underpay employees, prevent agencies from hiring away temp workers
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The family of a man killed in a traffic crash will receive $16 million, spread out over the next half century, from an Illinois trucking company, with the family's attorneys collecting $8 million.
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Fee enhancement provision on retainer agreement lacked specificity, is invalid
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The highest court in Illinois has ruled Cook County was wrong to refuse to continue disability benefits to a terminated employee with a nervous system disease, saying termination does not trigger a halt to such benefits.
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Two different Illinois state appellate court panels rejected attempts by the owners of hotels and restaurants, who were hammered by the government response to the Covid pandemic, to force Zurich American Insurance to cover their losses
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Panel said issue turned on whether its ruling reestablished circuit court's jurisdiction
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A state appeals panel agreed that a Cook County judge got the case right, in dismissing the lawsuit brought by the former chief operating officer of 3Red Group against his former attorneys from the Patterson Law Firm
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Pothole's proximity to Divvy station gives injured cyclist a chance to press claim of city negligence
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An appeals panel has ruled that despite a developer's "despicable conduct," the owners of a Loop building failed to show they suffered damages necessary to press a claim against the developer, for falsely alleging in a suit the owners lied about their structure's square footage.
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State appellate judges have taken the boot off a class action alleging the city skirted a state law capping municipal ordinance fines at $250 each, costing hundreds of thousands of people hundreds of millions of dollars
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An Illinois appeals court rejected an objector's attempt to rewrite the 2020 settlement that ended a class action lawsuit accusing Adtalem Global Education of misleading marketing