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Appeals panel agrees IL police and firefighter pension consolidation doesn't violate state constitution
Downstate and suburban pension funds for police officers and firefighters argued the law, backed by Gov. JB Pritzker, unduly stripped them of local control and violated the Illinois state constitution's pensions protection clause
Arby's to pay $495K to settle biometrics class action over employee fingerprint scans
The lawsuit targeted the fast food chain for allegedly illegally requiring workers at its Illinois locations to scan fingerprints when punching the clock without prior consent or certain notices allegedly required by Illinois' biometrics privacy law
IL sues 3M, other companies over 'forever' PFAS chemicals; Lawsuit follows path made by California lawsuit against some of same defendants
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has allowed a group of private attorneys from plaintiffs' law firms to join in the action, as the state seeks potentially big payout from the companies
Federal judge reduces legal fee award in securities suit vs Stericycle from $11M to $7.7M
Law firm had existing agreement with both lead plaintiffs for lower percentages than initially awarded
Appeals panel: Chicago Council may have violated Open Meetings Act with May 2020 phone conference
Council had quorum for three phone calls to discuss Covid, unrest related to George Floyd killing, but provided no public notice or minutes of the alleged meetings
Appeals panel: Doctor who consulted on hospital admission can't escape malpractice lawsuit
On-call physician had sole power to admit ER patient who later died of spinal epidural abscess
Appeals panel says Chicago lawyer can't escape $700K legal malpractice verdict
Postage meter firm alleged bad advice over corporate reorginazation cost it up to $2.7M
Chicago bakery Gonnella accuses ex-employee of helping wife set up shell company to sell overpriced supplies
The lawsuit is the latest filing in protracted court fight, as supplier also asks court to order Gonnella Baking Company to pay $300,000 in allegedly overdue invoices. G
Judge says SmithAmundsen had no duty to 'uncover Ponzi scheme,' forestall SEC investigation
Chicago firm advised investment firm The Income Store regarding SEC subpoena before they faced $40M Ponzi scheme investigation
IL Supreme Court: Chicago didn't violate state law by charging fees to owners of impounded vehicles
Plaintiffs strike out on long battle to prove city ordinance exceeds bounds of the Illinois Vehicle Code
Judge won't end wiretapping class action against Vrdolyak Law Group
Firm's former attorney alleged surreptitious recording of clients, employees
Judge says FTD's corporate successor can't enfore pre-bankruptcy arbitration clause vs ex-work-from-home sales reps
Former FTD sales reps say they were wrongly denied overtime after being made to work from home in 2020. FTD said they should be considered exempt from OT rules, and they should be blocked from suing by an arbitration agreement they signed with FTD before it was acquired in bankruptcy
Judge ends part of lawsuit over synthetic chemicals allegedly found in Kraft Mac & Cheese
Too early to say whether product packaging omitted key information, the judge ruled, so the lawsuit will continue, at least in part
Appeals panel orders new trial for man who won $41M after being forcibly evicted from Plano bar
A jury had agreed bar staff were 80% liable for bar patron becoming a quadriplegic, but the bar owners said they weren't given a fair trial
Morrissey sues Wise, alleging partner tried to cut their firm out of $5M from a personal injury settlement
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
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
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
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
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
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