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Volleyball coach strikes at Edelson, claiming firm launched sham class action to cause financial harm
A 2018 class action lawsuit, which centered on allegations of child sexual abuse against volleyball coach Rick Butler, ended with a victory for Butler. The coach and his family say the lawsuit should have never been filed.
Sysco, Burford agree to stop tussling over financier's right to control Sysco's ability to settle lawsuits
Food wholesaler Sysco had argued litigation funding giant Burford had sought to improperly exert undue influence over its antitrust ltiigation against big food production companies, like Tyson Foods, over the price of chicken
Judge kills class action accusing Amazon of knowingly selling 'defective' PlayStations
The judge said a handful of negative reviews from gamers aren't enough to claim Amazon knowingly sold defective Sony PlayStation 5 consoles
State Farm can't curb class action about allegedly short payouts for totaled cars
Clients accuse insurer of paying less than market value for their damaged vehicles by applying "typical-negotiation adjustment" to their claims
Judge: Lawsuit can continue vs Soldier Field, contractor over Mexican national soccer fans' alleged homophobic chants
The lawsuit asserts the Chicago Park District and its contractor, ASM Global, didn't do anything to stop Mexican national soccer fans from raining down homophobic taunts during a 2019 soccer match at Soldier Field
Cubs finally prevail against lawsuit alleging insufficient disability accessble seating
Man who uses wheelchair sued in 2017 after major renovations altered Wrigley layout. The man claimed the Cubs new seating didn't comply with the Americans with Disabilites Act.
Illinois AG ordered to provide documents from several state agencies in Monsanto litigation
Raoul can't shield information from agencies whose data he used to build water pollution lawsuit, federal judge says
$6.25M deal to end biometrics class action vs online college test proctor Respondus over student face scans
Class members estimated to get $50 each, lawyers to get $2.5 million, under settlement agreement
Appeals panel: Worker who claims he was fired for keeping locked guns in his car gets new chance to sue UL
Man whose properly secured guns were stolen from his vehicle in a company parking lot claims UL fired him because he kept the locked guns in his car
IL Supreme Court: Hawthorn Woods broke deal first, but developer can't sidestep its obligations
Illinois Supreme Court rules both sides broke the deal over work on a 62-acre piece of land the village would acquire, but both sides continued operating as if the deal was in place, so the deal still exists
Filing: Cook County sheriff, chief judge should not be immune from lawsuit blaming woman's death on electronic monitoring shortcomings
Family members of Shanate Guy seek to defeat motion to dismiss their complaint, asserting Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans and Sheriff Tom Dart should be held responsible for allowing Guy's boyfriend to kill her, even though he was in the county's electronic monitoring program
Appeals panel says @properties didn't commit defamation in public statment about Jan. 6 rally attendee
Real estate company terminated relationship with agent who posted about "storming the capital" on Jan. 6, 2021
Federal judge ends 40 years of federal oversight of Teamsters pension funds
The decrees had been put in place to address links to organized crime within the unions. But Judge Durkin said concerns about organized crime influence have passed
Vimeo en route to pay $2.25M to settle IL biometrics class action over Magisto face scans
Attorneys in line to collect $787,500 before class members get paid
Appeals panel: Illinois prejudgment interest law constitutional, doesn't unfairly hamper defendants' rights to defend themselves in court
Other courts have found differently, but the ruling marks the first time a state appeals court has directly answered the question of whether Illinois' law allowing plaintiffs to demand huge interest payments on top of potentially draconian verdicts, violates Illinois' state constitution
Family of student suing Latin School over son's death by suicide say school is blocking access to student's records
New lawsuit alleges elite private school improperly withholding kinds of documents released to other families
Judge refuses to OK class action vs city of Chicago from Black water department workers alleging racist work environments
Kennelly said the plaintiffs haven't yet presented enough evidence that their work experiences and workplaces were common or similar enough within the massive Chicago city water department
Appeals panel: Northwest Community Hospital not liable for alleged mistakes by doctors who worked as independent contractors
The lawsuit was linked to complications from a 2013 open heart surgery
Webb fires back on Smollett's attempt to toss out his conviction for lying about attack, says court did not abuse the process
Actor Jussie Smollett is still fighting the outcome of his trial linked to lying to Chicago Police about his alleged assault hoax, which special prosecutor Dan Webb says was shown at trial to have faked for Smollett's "own personal gain"
Appeals panel: Law firm Kutak Rock can't be sued for sex assault allegedly committed by one of its attorneys
A female client has accused now deceased attorney Charles MacKelvie of demanding she send him photos of her in the nude, and then propositioning sex from her as a way of resolving her outstanding legal bills. She said the firm should also pay for the alleged misconduct