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Blue Cross given green light to resume fraud lawsuit vs Walgreens over prescription prices
Health insurance giant alleged the Deerfield-based retail pharmacy giant executives devised a scheme to overbill for prescriptions
Appeals panel upholds termination of ex-Allstate analysts' defamation suit
SEC filing, company memo didn't identify fired employees, who originally won $27M federal verdict, justices said
Judge tosses class action accusing McDonald's of discriminating against Black franchisees
Brothers, who own severa, McDonald's franchise restaurants, said McDonald's steers Black restaurant owners into low-income, high-cost communities, not desired by white restaurant owners.
Judge won't clip hairdressers' class action vs insurer Continental over denied COVID coverage claims
The judge said alterations the businesses made to their premises and operations in response to COVID-19 were sufficient to allow them to continue suing their insurer for denying their claims for coverage for business losses caused by state lockdown orders.
Group can continue lawsuit vs IL Elections Board for restricting voter registration data, frustrating audit of IL voter records
Judge says high likelihood the Illinois State Board of Elections violated federal election law by refusing to turn over state voter records to group seeking to audit the voter rolls for irregularities.
Judge: Doesn't matter at this point if Cook County profited off foreclosure fees; Wells Fargo can't end county discrimination suit
Wells Fargo said Cook County can't sue because it profited off additional processing of loan defaults that Cook County has blamed on alleged discriminatory lending practices
Appeals panel OKs shut down of class action vs Frerichs over handling of IL college savings plans
Judges said it is not their place to determine how the state treasurer was supposed to manage the funds, or what kinds of fees his office can collect from plan participants.
IL high court dunks 'test the waters' doctrine used to defeat judge substitutions; Resets $20M Palos hospital v Humana court fight
Ruling holds a Cook County judge wrongly denied Palos Community Hospital's request for a new judge, and voids all orders entered since 2017 in hospital's lawsuit vs Humana.
IL high court says landscape workers can't use prevailing wage law to sue Chicago Park District contractor over pay
Decision reverses appellate ruling, upholds circuit court's dismissal of complaint
IL Supreme Court says West Bend Insurance had to defend LA Tan franchise in BIPA class action
Ruling affirms earlier opinions that 'publication' includes private disclosure of fingerprint data, holds implications for current and future biometrics class actions vs employers, other businesses in Illinois.
Judge curbs class action vs PlatePass over rental car tollway charges, sends case to arbitrator
Judge says even question of whether case should be in arbitration should go to an arbiter, under PlatePass user agreement.
Appeals panel: SCOTUS has wrongly blocked people from suing debt collectors as Congress intended, asks court to revisit
Judges on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take another look at its prior decision in Spokeo, which they said specifically has improperly prevented people from suing debt collectors, as Congress had intended when it wrote the law
Appeals panel denies Northwestern law professor new trial after losing defamation lawsuit
Northwestern educator sued relatives in dispute over a $3 million inheritance
Yarbrough sidesteps former county workers' lawsuit over hiring practices at Recorder's office
Judge: Complaint doesn't show salaries were linked to political support of current Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough
Judge: Sheriff's office not on hook to pay woman shot by her ex-fiance, a Cook County correctional officer, in attempted murder-suicide
Former Cook County correctional officer Erika Aguirre had attempted to shoot to death her ex-fiance, Deisy Jaimes, as well as Jaimes' father, in an attempted murder-suicide. Jaimes' family claimed the county should pay because of a county policy they claimed required Aguirre to possess a gun.
Judge yanks dentists' claims for insurance coverage for income lost to state COVID shutdowns
Virus exclusion in policy proves to be deciding factor in the COVID coverage dispute between Dental Experts practices and Massachusetts Bay Insurance.
Nurse staffing firm Heartland to pay $5.4M to end biometrics class action over worker fingerprint scans
Settlement pool could include more than 10,000 employees, who could get $320 each
Whirlpool can't unplug all of federal class action over leaky dishwashers
Judge won't dismiss parts of warranty claims based on allegations company knew of dishwasher defects before selling appliances
Fifth Third Bank, executives win end of investor class action, for now, over unauthorized accounts
Judge says complaint doesn't show bank leaders knew all the details of federal investigation when addressing shareholders
Appeals panel says 'copyright troll' firm's housing designs are too generic to warrant protection
Judge: 'Copyright troll' attempting to control nearly entire market with thousands of similar plans