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Apple drops bid to delete city of Chicago's 'Netflix tax' on streaming entertainment services
After a judge rejected their arguments earlier this spring, Apple opted to quit the episode, rather than continue to try to resume their lawsuit claiming the city's 9% amusement tax was unconstitutional and illegal
Lawsuit: Chicago cops' use of ShotSpotter leads to wrongful stops, searches, arrests; ShotSpotter disputes the claims
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the Chicago Police to stop using the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system to investigate suspected firearm incidents. ShotSpotter has issued a statement disputing the allegations raised in the lawsuit brought by progressive social justice organization the MacArthur Justice Center.
Lawsuit revived vs Loyola Chicago over refusal to refund tuition, fees, after Covid shutdown
A federal appeals panel says students can press their claim Loyola University Chicago's decision to close the campus and move instruction online in March 2020 breached an 'implied contract' for in-person instruction and access to campus in return for $22,000 per semester tuition
Impax to pay $145M to settle Opana drug market manipulation claims from pharmacies, other direct purchasers
The lawsuit accused Impax Labs of agreeing with drugmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals to delay the entry of its Opana generic equivalent. The deal came quickly after a jury found in favor of Endo on the antitrust claims
Class action: Pangea allegedly misleads tenants into leasing problem apartments, ignores complaints, threatens objectors
Pangea, identified as Chicago's largest residential landlord, allegedly papers over problems at apartments, including mold, pest issues and large mechanical problems, according to the lawsuit
Logistics broker Virnich says Liberty Mutual wrongly counting independent truckers to boost workers' comp premiums
West Chicago-based Virnich's lawsuit alleges Liberty Mutual is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars more in workers' compensation insurance premiums than Virnich should owe, because it doesn't directly employ truck drivers
Ceridian signs off on $3.5M deal to end class action over Dayforce worker fingerprint scans
As many as 14,000 people could claim $790-$1,580 each under the deal. Plaintiffs' lawyers could get $1.23M.
Class action claims Paramount improperly sharing CBS.com user info with Facebook to boost ads
The class action lawsuit says Paramount using Facebook's so-called Tracking Pixel to monitor and share user behavior to better target ads
Lawsuit: Cook sheriff, chief judge should pay for murder of Vietnam vet in carjacking
The lawsuit is the second filed in recent weeks, seeking to hold the county liable for crimes committed by people allegedly under the county's electronic monitoring program as they awaited trial on other charges. The Sheriff's Office says it doesn't believe the men were in their monitoring program
IL Supreme Court denies Sterigenics plaintiffs' bid to slap hold on first trial over EtO emissions
Plaintiffs suing medical device sterilizer Sterigenics had sought to shut down the first trial over whether Sterigenics' emissions caused cancer, saying a Cook County judge had abused her discretion in rejecting their attempts to bring the cases to trial together, rather than individually
Feds ask court to order Cubs to renovate Wrigley Field to boost, improve disability seating, access
The lawsuit asserts renovations at Wrigley Field cost disability seating, and relegated the bulk of accessible seating to Wrigley's "worst seats." The Cubs have separately argued their seating plan actually does comply with the ADA
Walmart, Home Depot, other retailers could be roped into massive class action vs Clearview over face scrapes
Tech firm Clearview has opposed the move to add more defendants, saying it is "bad faith ... transparent gamesmanship" by plaintiffs' lawyers
Appeals panel: Indiana surgeon can press antitrust claims vs IU Health for 'monopolizing' Bloomington market
A vascular surgeon said IU Health revoked his hospital privileges as part of alleged scheme to leverage massive market presence to pressure him when he refused to end independent practice
Brink's hit with class action over requiring armored truck drivers to scan fingerprints to unlock doors
Like so many other class actions brought under the Illinois biometrics privacy law, the lawsuit says Brink's must pay up for allegedly violating the law's notice and consent provisions
SCOTUS decision may doom feds' efforts to sue Townstone Financial over execs' talk radio speech: New filing
Chicago mortgage broker Townstone Financial says federal banking regulators overreached in using anti-discrimination regulations to sue them for comments made on the radio by Townstone executives
Careerbuilder to pay $3.8M to settle sales reps' class action over alleged 'commission stripping'
Eligible sales reps would get at least $625 each, if not 'thousands' of dollars. Lawyers would get up to $1.25M
Villa Park school district: Father's parental rights don't trump school's obligations to 'support transgender youth'
A father sued Villa Park School DIstrict 45, accusing school officials of conspiring with his ex-wife, to aid their child's transition from male to female over the father's objections, allegedly violating the father's constitutional parental rights
Judge turns down bid by ex-Chicago radio host to reboot $10M defamation suit vs WTMX owner
Former Chicago radio host Melissa McGurren has tried since fall 2021 to sue her former employer, Hubbard Radio, for defamation, saying an executive at the company claimed in a staff email that she had lied under oath
$8M deal OK'd to end Ray-Ban app face scan class action vs eyewear maker Luxottica
Illinois residents who virutally tried on Ray-Ban sunglasses could be in line for hundreds of dollars each, if they submitted eligible claims for a cut of the funds by May 31
Judge nixes bid by Sterigenics, other corporate defendants to avoid trial, risk of bigger payouts for EtO emissions
A Cook County judge denied requests from medical device sterilization company Sterigenics and other defendants, including Griffith Foods, for summary judgment as the first trial date approaches over claims the companies allowed emissions from a Willowbrook plant that allegedly caused cancer