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FDA: Sterilization plants needed to boost PPE supply vs COVID; activists question, resist call to reopen plants
Anti-EtO sterilization groups in IL, GA, oppose FDA's call to reopen medical sterilization plants closed last year, which FDA says are needed to help fight COVID-19
FDA: Georgia Sterigenics plant needs to reopen to help fight COVID-19
Federal agency says hospitals are running short on "personal protective equipment" to safeguard doctors and nurses from infection, in part, because states shut down medical device sterilization plants over EtO emissions
Class actions target Blackhawks, Arlington Racecourse over facial recognition tech at stadiums
Two class action lawsuits accuse Chicago's NHL team and horse track owner Churchill Downs of not getting authorization from fans before scanning their faces at events.
Hyman, Johnson appear to secure seats on Illinois First District Appellate Court
Cook County Democratic endorsed candidates split results, as Hyman bests three opponents, Griffin appears to fall Johnson, in balloting for appellate seat.
Cook County voters select nominees for 31 judgeships to serve on the county's courts
Turnout steeply declines amid coronavirus, but ballots cast for 13 countywide circuit judge posts, 18 subcircuit posts
Neville appears to best Reyes in race for Cook County's open seat on Illinois Supreme Court
Illinois’ only African American state Supreme Court justice appears poised to claim a win in the race to land a 10-year term on the state’s high court.
Chicago area Shop & Save stores targeted by biometrics class action lawsuit over worker time clock punches
Class action accuses supermarket chain of not giving workers proper notice and securing authorization before scanning their "biometrics," which is typically fingerprints.
Video gambing operators: Oak Lawn video gambling 'penny per play' tax illegal, unconstitutional
Village said tax would raise more than $500,000 annually to help pay for services and pensions, and avoid big property tax hike.
Bar associations pan some IL Supreme Court campaigns; Epstein: Rating a result of 'inflexible rule' based on candidate legal experience
Candidate Daniel Epstein says his "not recommended" rating was based on a "bright line rule" for bar associations, which withholds candidate recommendations from judicial candidates with less than 10 years experience.
Coronavirus in the workplace? Employers must still be wary of lawsuit risk, attorneys say
Wage laws, paid sick leave ordinances, privacy laws, family and medical leave laws, disability laws, workplace safety laws, all just a few employers must navigate as they seek to navigate the unprecedented challenges of the coronavirus outbreak.
Appeals panel: SCOTUS precedent doesn't block out of state plaintiffs in nationwide class actions
Class actions are different 'mass actions' limited by U.S. Supreme Court's Bristol Myers Squibb ruling, the appeals panel ruled.
Already under strain from sterilization plant closures, coronavirus outbreak adds 'pressure' on medical device supplies
Medical device makers and the FDA have said for months that efforts to close sterilization plants that produce millions of key medical devices would constrain health care supply. The coronavirus outbreak only increases the strain, the makers say.
Judge asked to slice $24M fees for plaintiffs' lawyers, including 7% cut for other judge, in 18-year investor tiff
Plaintiffs' lawyers say they should get 30% of $80M award. Defendants say those lawyers' clients are actually only getting $1.9M
Developer lawsuit: City sold parking lot to developer, then denied permit needed to operate parking lot
Condo developer Morningside says city denial of its parking lot driveway permit request is "circular and illogical"
Complaint: IL Gaming Board 'wielding FOIA like a sword' vs Gold Rush video gaming, Heidner
Lawsuit accuses the Illinois Gaming Board of leaking negative and confidential information about Gold Rush to the Chicago Tribune and the feds, while slowwalking FOIA requests submitted by Gold Rush to learn how it happened.
Wells Fargo: Cook County must end 'obstruction, show specific lending discrimination to back claims in redlining lawsuit
Wells Fargo presses attack in defense against Cook County's lending discrimination claims, even as city of Miami, Fla., dropped similar lawsuits earlier this year.
Judge shelves store managers' age discrimination legal action vs Jewel-Osco
Supermarket chain Jewel-Osco has prevailed against claims it discriminated against a group of older store managers, who accused the retailer of setting them up to be replaced by younger workers.
New fingerprints class actions target Valvoline, DSV Air & Sea, Food Evolution, Bottled Blonde, three others
Seven more employers join growing ranks of hundreds of Illinois businesses hit with biometrics class actions
Jewel-Osco corporate parent asks IL appeals court to declare biometrics law unconstitutional
Albertsons says the law illegally exempts 'financial institutions' from numbering among the defendants in 500-plus class action lawsuits filed in just the last 3 years.
Pipeline: Melrose Park's lawsuit over Westlake Hospital closure rests on 'fantasy' theory
Westlake's owners say the village's lawsuit demanding payout for 'fraud' trespasses on state authority and relies on an 'unconstitutional' village ordinance.