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Monday, December 23, 2024

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Morrissey sues Wise, alleging partner tried to cut their firm out of $5M from a personal injury settlement

By Scott Holland |
The complaint alleges David Wise, one of the name partners in the personal injury law firm of Wise Morrisey, conspired with another lawyer to cut Wise's partner, Francis Morrissey, out of the settlement. Wise and the other lawyer deny the allegations.

Whole Foods moves to settle BIPA lawsuit over warehouse workers' use of voice recognition technology

By Scott Holland |
Class workers to net roughly $545 each from $296,000 settlement to end lawsuit over use of Honeywell equiment known as Vocollect

Duane Morris report: Huge settlements, continued 'innovation' from plaintiffs' lawyers will drive class action lawsuits in 2023

By Scott Holland |
The annual report, authored by veteran lawyers at the law firm of Duane Morris, in Chicago, warned employers and other businesses to prepare for yet more class action lawsuits in the years to come and attempts by plaintiffs' lawyers to work around otherwise limiting Supreme Court decisions

Judge OKs $2.5M sanctions vs lawyer, clients who pressed 'unreasonable' lawsuit over mistaken identity of who created painting

By Scott Holland |
Award stems from 2016 bench verdict in favor of famous Canadian artist who denied creating painting in 1976

Appeals panel: Chicago must force telecom companies to hire union labor to upgrade their equipment on city-owned poles

By Scott Holland |
A Cook County judge had ruled the city's contract with labor unions doesn't apply in the case, because it is the telecom companies, not the city, doing the installation work. The city only issued permits to allow the work on its poles, the judge had ruled.

Appeals panel: iPhone users can't sue Apple for face, fingerprint scans under IL biometrics privacy law

By Scott Holland |
An Illinois state appeals court says a federal judge was right to determine Apple never actually possessed any of the face or fingerprint scans used by Apple customers to safeguard access to their Apple devices

Appeals panel agrees drivers can't sue Chicago over red light camera tickets

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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