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Appeals panel: Sheriff Dart's layoffs after 2017 soda tax repeal didn't break labor law
Appeals panel says no evidence county failed to engage in good faith negotiations
Chicago city workers denied restraining order against City Hall over COVID vax mandate
Judge says the city claims it is still processing more than 6,000 religious exemption applications from city workers seeking to be excluded from the mandate, which requires them to get a COVID jab, or potentially get fired.
Judge OKs $56M fees for lawyers that led big chicken price-fixing lawsuit vs Tyson, Pilgrim's Pride, other producers
More than 20 law firms logged 100,000 hours since 2016 to reach $170M in settlements, so they are entitled to roughly one-third of the total fund after expenses, a Chicago federal judge said
Judge denies injunction request from NorthShore workers seeking religious exemption from COVID vax mandate
Availability of damages if litigation is successful means no need to preserve status quo during proceedings
Law firms entitled to $930K for making sure Cook Clerk Yarbrough's office complies with federal hiring oversight
Judge rules Chicago law firms instrumental in appointment of compliance administrator, and the fees are needed to sanction Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough for fighting against the effort to tighten scrutiny on her past and current government hiring practices.
Judge allows class action to crawl ahead, accusing maker of Nuk pacifiers of false advertising
Plaintiffs leading the class action say Nuk products aren't 'orthodontic,' as label indicates
IL Supreme Court restores $8 million punitive damages against man accused by ex-girlfriend of sexual assault
The court said the man's 'egregiously reprehensible conduct' means the $8 million the man was ordered to pay to the woman is 'not unconstitutionally excessive'
Appeals panel says McHenry County road districts can keep challenging law letting voters dissolve townships
Even though no dissolution is imminent, three appeals judges said the state can't just dismiss the case, under the public interest exception.
Insurer obligated to defend north Kane Co. school D300 in lawsuits over sex abuse of children on school property
West Bend policy covers Boys & Girls Club, as well as Illinois' 6th-largest school district, a state appeals panel ruled
Blood plasma biz Octapharma agrees to pay $10M to end class action over plasma donor fingerprint scans
Under the deal, donors could receive anywhere from $85 to $800 each, depending on how many people submit valid claims for a cut of the settlement fund. Lawyers could get $3.5 million.
Appeals panel: IL Dept of Revenue misapplied state sales tax law, double-taxed certain car dealers
The state had improperly denied refunds to a Rockford used car dealer who had sought credit for taxes paid on car sales that ultimately ended in repossession.
Appeals panel scraps $8M penalties, cleanup order vs landowner, company accused of illegal dumping in Ford Heights
Split appeals panel said judge was wrong to order total cleanup of Ford Heights property, work that the landowners estimated would cost $100 million or more.
Judge: Paramedics who posted pics to Snapchat of man who lost arm in fireworks mishap didn't violate his rights
Cicero man sued the town of Cicero and two paramedics, who posted the pics with the caption "Feeling blessed."
Vending machine operator Compass Group to pay $6.8M to settle fingerprint scan class action
Lawyers who brought the consequential class action under the Illinois biometrics law will seek at least $2.2M from the deal.
Lawyers ask judge to OK $68M fees for work landing $181M chicken price class action settlement
It remains unclear how much consumers might get as a share of $111 million remaining in the settlement funds after lawyers and settlement administrators are paid.
Illinois Supreme Court halts school districts' request for billions of extra state dollars into public education
Panel said granting request would violate separation of powers clause
Judge permits narrowed class action accusing State Farm of presuming Black clients claims were fraud
The owner of a building on Chicago's South Side said State Farm illegally presumed his claims, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, were fraudulent.
Zion rental home inspection ordinance may violate 4th Amendment, federal judge says
Judge refuses to dismiss challenge to city over mandatory inspection policy
Judge won't strike down class action vs. United over refund refusals for COVID flight cancellations
The airline still might try to fly their arguments against allowing the class action at later stages of the court proceedings.
Judge: McDonald's USA can't be sued because franchise restaurants don't let blind people walk through drive-thrus
A federal judge noted Beaumont Costales lawyers helped a man who is blind travel to California so he could be denied service at McDonald's drive-thrus and file suit under that state's laws, too.