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Appeals panel agrees drivers can't sue Chicago over red light camera tickets
Violation notices that don't strictly adhere to city, state law still sufficient to inform alleged offenders
Buffalo Grove LGBTQ activist says social media posts vs dance studio owner were mere opinion, not defamation
Legal dispute stems from June 2022 Facebook posts over transgender locker room access policy and alleged attempts by the activist to discourage people from doing business with the dance studio because the owner was allegedly "preaching non-affirmation"
Cook County judge won't upset $363M verdict awarded to one woman in first Sterigenics EtO exposure trial; Sterigenics vows appeal
Willowbrook woman Susan Kamuda has blamed her cancer diagnosis on emissions from Sterigenics' now-shuttered Willowbrook medical device sterilization plant
Consultant accuses ex-employer, lawyers of trumping up forgery claim to escape compensation agreement
Former CFO expected to collect more than $2 million from sale of company
Class action: Cook County's tax sale process discriminates vs Black, Latino homeowners
Lawsuit claims delinquent tax policy unconstitutionally robs property owners of equity, selling off homes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to investors to settle property tax debts of as little as severl thousand dollars
Appeals panel says son of Glenview police officer who died at work not entitled to his father's full salary
Ruling restores February 2018 pension board decision to dismiss application from officer's ex-wife seeking full benefits equal to 100% of the officer's salary. The board awarded the child 50%
Appeals panel agrees woman waited too long to sue her ex-employer for reading her private Facebook messages
Woman said she was demoted and fired for complaining about her company and bosses. But the appeals court agreed with the employer that she waited two months too long to file her lawsuit
Lawyers ask judge to sign off on $42M Grubhub settlement over investor losses, award them $12.6M in fees
Class complaint alleges company didn't disclose it was losing ground to food delivery competitors
Chicago can't scrap class action accusing city of wrongly seizing, selling cars over unpaid parking tickets
A Chicago federal judge ruled plaintiffs can continue their lawsuit accusing the city of improperly taking their cars because the city may not have sent enough notices to people whose vehicles were being seized
Federal judge: Permissive Cook County court the place for most of class action vs CVS over passport photo face scans
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said most of the claims in the suit need to go to state court, because plaintiffs don't argue they were actually harmed by the scans, only that CVS may have violated technical notice and consent provisions within Illinois' biometrics law
Federal jury orders Lake County Circuit Clerk's office to pay $2.5M to 3 ex-workers allegedly fired over politics
Workers say Democratic clerk canned the workers who had campaigned for her Republican rival, immediately after taking office in 2016
Supreme Court says condo sellers can't sue over association's 'excessive' documentation fees
Unanimous opinion overturns appeals court's ruling which held the fees were illegal under Illinois' condo law
Judge grants final OK to $3.5M deal in fingerprints scan class action vs time clock vendor Ceridian
Lawyers will get 35% of the total settlement. Class members could receive as much as $700 each
IL Supreme Court: Cook County can't block data on whether Stroger Hospital is telling police about gunshot victims
A 6-1 majority of the Illinois Supreme Court agreed that Cook County can't use HIPPA to withhold data concerning when gunshot victims are treated, and when - or if - those treatments are reported to police, as required by law
Class action can continue, for now, over cheese content in TGI Friday's Mozzarella Sticks snacks, but not vs TGIF
Complaint alleges TGI Friday's Mozzarella Sticks snacks contain cheddar, not mozzarella. The judge said TGI Friday's can't be sued, because it only lends its name to the products, which are made and sold by another company
Appeals panel revives portion of ex-Oak Park village manager's pension lawsuit vs village
A federal appeals court said former Oak Park Village Manager Thomas Barwin had done enough to be allowed to press his claims the village wrongly blocked him from using his prior government service to purchase credits sufficient to get an Oak Park pension.
IL Supreme Court: Landlord's insurance company not obligated to defend tenants over oven fire damage
Pekin residents were sued by an appliance repairman, who had been sued by the landlord's insurance company, after the tenants allegedly lit a gas stove amid repair process, setting fire to their rental home
Judge curbs Subaru's try to detour class action over distracted driver face scans to arbitration
The class action lawsuit, brought by the owner of a 2020 Subaru Outback, claims the carmaker's DriverFocus system violates Illinois' biometrics privacy law.
Judge won't let turkey producers end class action accusing them of fixing prices of Thanksgiving birds
The lawsuits are similar to those that hatched settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars from many of the same companies over chicken prices
Appeals panel: Courts don't have power to tell county board how to spend transportation funds before passing budget
Road contractors said Cook County will improperly divert transportation funds in violation of Safe Roads Amendment and a Supreme Court ruling, and asked for a court order requiring the county to follow the constitution before the county board passed a new budget.