Three Chicago class action firms had sued ADP in 2017-18 under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. A judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement deal on Nov. 6.
The appeals judges said a federal district judge was wrong to dismiss dozens of lawsuits against the sellers of shelf-stable Parmesan cheese simply because the ingredients on the label explicitly included the cellulose many sellers included as a filler and anti-caking agent.
Appeals judges ruled a Cook County judge out of bounds in denying football hall of famer Richard Dent the chance to learn the identities of those who accused him of groping a woman and of public drunkeness.
Facial recognition tech company Clearview A.I. had argued the plaintiffs had improperly manipulated the case to keep it in plaintiff-friendly Cook County court system.
Jenner & Block filed suit on behalf of a large group of restaurant owners, including some of the biggest names in Chicago, accusing a big collection of business insurers of wrongly denying them coverage after they were shut down and reopened under restrictions imposed by Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
The judge says the only interest the Chicago plainitff has in the New York cases is to try to steer the proceedings - and reap the resulting attorney fees.
Former Northwestern University workers and retirees accused the school of violating federal law by presenting workers with so many investment choices it would "overwhelm" investors.
CHICAGO -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that a pension agreement that promised retired steelworkers and their families health care for life must be honored, even though the underlying benefits agreement was terminated by a successor to the original employer.
A federal judge has trashed a $16 million settlement deal the U .S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission reached with Kraft Foods, because commissioners’ public statements said too much about what Kraft believed was a confidential settlement.
A Cook County judge has ruled third party vendors who supply fingerprint-scanning time clocks to employers may be able to sidestep attempts to sue them under a state biometric privacy law that has been used to target Illinois employers of all sizes and types with potentially crippling class action lawsuits.
Kraft Foods alleges federal trade regulators quickly spoiled a settlement agreement in which Kraft agreed to pay $16 million to end a suit alleging it had manipulated wheat prices, by braying to the public about their purported triumph over Kraft in the case.
An Illinois appeals court says a Chicago sightseeing tour boat company was wrongly denied the chance to contest the county's attempt to make it pay taxes on its Lake Michigan and Chicago River tours because the county's Revenue Department misled the company on the deadline for filing its protest.
