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Recent News About Nixon Peabody Llp
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The owners of an energy storage facility in far northwest suburban Marengo has filed suit against battery maker LG Energy, saying LG owes $10 million for making batteries that are prone to catch fire.
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A Chicago federal judge has stripped a former Broadview mayor from a suit by a group, which wants to open an adults-only club in the west suburban village, saying the group failed to prove the then-mayor did not enjoy the immunity of a public official in denouncing the proposed establishment.
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A group of investors have renewed their long-running legal fight win the chance to open a strip club in suburban Broadview, now asking a federal judge for permission to directly challenge the constitutionality of an 11-year-old state law the would-be club operators contend effectively bans all adult entertainment establishments from opening anywhere in the town.
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A group of investors – most of whom have remained concealed by what judges called an “obscure trail of contracts, trusts, and illusory commitments” – seeking to open a strip club in Broadview have suffered another setback as they try to force the suburban community to grant them the permit they need to open the establishment, in a ruling from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Three men who say their lawyers’ mishandling of business deals cost them more than $8 million have sued the former firm of Ungaretti & Harris, in hope of recouping nearly half their losses.
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A federal judge has blocked the bid of a former appraisal reviewer who blew the whistle on alleged fraud at a failed suburban bank from collecting as much as a quarter of any settlement the directors of the bank may reach with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, upholding the ruling of another judge who found the FDIC cannot be considered a “government” agency for the purposes of the false claims law upon which the former bank employee has staked his claim.
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A Chicago law firm which allegedly initially declined to bring a whistleblower suit against doctors and MRI companies over purportedly illegal leasing agreements, but then later won hundreds of thousands of dollars for a different client in a nearly identical case months later, should not be held liable for the first client’s failure to bring a similar case or collect damages, a state appeals panel has ruled.
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A power struggle within a Lincolnwood-based Assyrian charitable foundation reportedly under investigation and facing a subpoena from prosecutors seeking information on allegedly questionable financial activities has spilled into Cook County Circuit Court, as each side has asked a judge to bar the other from any influence on how the organization conducts its business and spends its millions of dollars in the bank.
