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Recent News About Schain Banks
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Illinois Supreme Court rules both sides broke the deal over work on a 62-acre piece of land the village would acquire, but both sides continued operating as if the deal was in place, so the deal still exists
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An appeals court has ruled a Palatine police officer had grounds to arrest a Chicago man for intoxicated driving — the man actually suffered a seizure behind the wheel — because the man nonetheless showed the hallmarks of drunken driving.
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An appeals court has tossed out the window a lawsuit by the would-be developers of a Loop hotel, who alleged their attorneys improperly advised another client how to thwart the project, saying the developers waited too long to lodge their malpractice action.
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The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activity on Dec. 3 in the suits below:
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The following cases categorized as "contract" were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Dec. 3. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Schain Banks Kenny against John Plummer on Dec. 3.
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Arlington Heights District 214 failed to persuade a federal appeals court to toss a jury verdict that it failed to protects the rights of an employee who suffered mental health problems.
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The would-be developers of a hotel in a North Loop skyscraper have sued their former attorneys seeking up to $120 million in damages because they allegedly advised another client on how to defeat the proposed hotel development.
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Tenants of a Melrose Park shopping center allege their landlord improperly allowed another video gambling establishment to open in the mall, allegedly violating their lease.
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A man is suing law firm Kemp & Grzelakowski Ltd. and James Kemp, citing alleged legal malpractice.
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A group of workers whose walkout over unpaid wages all but shut down a troubled Chicago coffeehouse chain for weeks, has sued the owners of the coffeehouses, alleging the employers mismanaged finances, leading them to bounce paychecks, make “unlawful deductions” from workers’ pay for benefits the workers did not receive and to not pay the workers overtime.
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Less than three weeks after being targeted in a $26 million lawsuit over a soured acquisition, celebrity investor Marcus Lemonis has countersued his erstwhile business partner, Chicago businessman and the founder of Bow Truss Coffee, Phil Tadros.
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A financially troubled Chicago coffee purveyor is taking aim at a television personality and investor in a $26 million, five-count complaint filed Feb. 1 in Cook County Circuit Court.
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A former sales manager for a DuPage County dealer of Caterpillar heavy equipment has fired back against his former employer’s legal claims he manipulated sales promotions for his own benefit, and has filed his own lawsuit against the owner of Patten Industries, claiming his ex-boss followed through on threats to treat his departure to another company as “a bad divorce” by launching a smear campaign to ruin him professionally.
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A DuPage County heavy equipment dealer hopes to extract nearly $9 million from a former employee for alleged misconduct, including allegedly using special sales promotions to improperly pad his pay at his employer’s expense.
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A trio of former exotic dancers was foiled in an attempt to recover money they claim is owed to them by the South Loop club where they worked, after a federal judge dismissed the women’s wage lawsuit against the Pink Monkey.
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Two businessmen who claim they are the originators of the idea to build a facility to handle fresh flowers and other perishable imports at O’Hare International Airport are suing an investor they claim joined their business venture, only to take it over and cut them out.
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