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Sunday, December 22, 2024

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Poultry producers object to deal allowing lawsuit investor Burford to claim control of Sysco's class action

By Scott Holland |
Sysco has asked a federal judge to let new Burford-backed venture pursue its claims against chicken producers in price-fixing suit. The chicken producers say that amounts to 'invalid champerty'

Appeals panel agrees to dismiss class action accusing UChicago, Google of patient privacy violations

By Scott Holland |
7th Circuit judges say class action doesn't allege anyone was actually harmed by the data collection project designed to help Google build tech to help anticipate patient needs

Judge says MeTV users aren't 'subscribers,' can't bring class action under video privacy law

By Scott Holland |
Class action accused network of improperly sharing viewer data with Facebook through Meta Pixel technology

Judge: Insurance company must help Tony's supermarkets defend vs fingerprint scan class action

By Scott Holland |
Continental Western Insurance sought judgment allowing it to use exclusions to avoid covering Tony's Finer Foods against a class action suit accusing the grocer of violating Illinois' BIPA law. The judge said allowing such exclusions in this instance would render the policies meaningless

Appeals panel: Woman can sue Indiana police officer accused of sexual assault during high school ride-along

By Scott Holland |
Woman was 17 at time she says the Hammond police officer made unwanted comments, physical advances throughout a day-long school-assigned ride-along

Judge voids $228M biometrics verdict; BNSF gets new trial over amount owed for scanning trucker fingerprints

By Scott Holland |
Truck driver who sued loses out on chance to seek exponentially more money for himself, other truck drivers, his lawyers, after judge will limit new trial solely to question of damages, not whether BNSF owes for nearly 2 million violations of the law

Volleyball coach strikes at Edelson, claiming firm launched sham class action to cause financial harm

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Scott Holland |
Attorneys in line to collect $787,500 before class members get paid