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Bribes to Madigan not enough to force ComEd to pay back money earned from beneficial state laws, federal judge says
A federal judge says the plaintiffs can't show Madigan exerted "improper" influence on state lawmakers to pass new state laws beneficial to ComEd, so their racketeering case over ComEd's alleged bribes can't continue. -
ComEd class action not about electric rates, but millions reaped from Madigan bribery scheme: Class action lawyers
The legal team leading the class actions vs ComEd over the bribery scheme involving former House Speaker Michael Madigan are asking the judge to short out the utility's efforts to dismiss their lawsuits. -
Judge pulls batteries on second attempt at suing toy company VTech over data breach
A group of plaintiffs suing toy maker VTech over a 2015 data breach faced another setback when a Chicago federal judge again dismissed their would-be class action lawsuit. -
Judge OKs $29M deal to end class action vs Ascension Health over Wheaton Franciscan pension claims
In the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that religiously-affiliated hospitals can qualify for exemption from certain federal pension rules, a Chicago federal judge has signed off on a $29 million settlement, designed to end class action litigations against Ascension Health, in which the country’s largest Catholic hospital system was accused of attempting to use the religious exemption improperly to underfund its employees’ retirement plans. -
Plug pulled on data breach class action vs Vtech; plaintiffs never showed how harmed, judge says
A Chicago federal judge has pulled the plug on a class action suit against electronic toymaker VTech, which alleged VTech did not protect parents' and childrens' personal data from a hacker, saying plaintiffs failed to show how the security breach harmed them. -
$4.25M deal ends litigation vs Northern Trust over 'hundreds of millions' in losses for public pensions
A Chicago federal judge has signed off on a $4.25 million settlement to end years of litigation between financial investment firm Northern Trust Co. and a host of public worker retirement plans in Chicago and elsewhere in the U.S. over claims Northern Trust’s allegedly risky investment decisions had led to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for the retirement programs when markets crashed at the onset of the Great Recession.