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Appeals panel: Airbnb can't use arbitration agreement to escape lawsuit from man who lost a leg at a friend's party
In a 2-1 ruling, the judges ruled a man should be able to sue Airbnb despite holding a user account that included a mandatory arbitration clause, because the agreement only applies to the people directly renting a property during the time they rented
Lawyers getting $90M of $450M settlement in class action over Kraft Heinz merger
Litigation goes back to 2019, accusing Kraft Heinz and its officers of causing investors to lose big money amid the merger that formed the new food processing giant company in 2015.
North Central student can continue class action over Covid remote learning shift
The lawsuit claims North Central College in Naperville violated a contract with students when it shifted to online learning in the spring of 2020, while refusing to refund tuition. The claims echo those in lawsuit vs Loyola University, which a federal appeals court allowed
Homeowners can keep up part of lawsuit accusing State Farm of discriminating vs Black homeowners' claims
The class action lawsuit alleges State Farm's claims processing procedure and algorithms have violated the federal Fair Housing Act by allegedly favoring white homeowners' claims
Split appeals panel upholds $47M malpractice verdict vs Advocate Lutheran General, others
Justices agree depositions used by plaintiffs weren't admissible evidence, but majority said defendants failed to show how that would have changed the outcome of the trial
Judge: Woman fired for improperly issuing drivers' permit OK to keep suing IL Sec. of State for discrimination
A Black woman who formerly worked for the Illinois Secretary of State's office was fired after improperly issuing a drivers' permit to a friend. She sued for discrimination, in part because her white male colleagues weren't fired for allegedly doing the same thing
Federal judge: Samsung must face 'mass arbitration' of biometrics claims
The electronics giant had argued the collective filing of tens of thousands of individual claims at the same time amounted to an attempt to extract a class action-style settlement, despite arbitration agreements forbidding class actions
Judge won't dismiss Chicago's complaint vs Monarch law firm, contractor over debt resolution work
Chicago City Hall alleged Strategic Financial Solutions attempted to use Monarch Legal Group's law license to shield itself from the city's lawsuit over alleged fraudulent debt settlement offers
Little Caesars will end BIPA class action for nearly $7M, lawyers to get $2.3M
Little Caesars workers who used fingerprint time clocks in Illinois are in line for $545 checks
Federal judge says Chicago woman, backed by anti-gun groups, can't use courts to force changes to state gun laws
The lawsuit, led in part by the Brady Center for Gun Violence, alleged failure to use existing policy causing PTSD in children of Black city neighborhoods with elevated violence rates
State Farm can't total out class action lawsuit by Black agents accusing discrimination
Federal judge says it is too soon to allow State Farm to end the class action claims
Judge says lawsuit over United vaccine policy struggles to find the grounds to stay aloft
A Chicago federal judge granted a grou p of United Airlines workers a few extra weeks to amend their complaint to try again to show how United's Covid vaccine mandate rules amounted to religious discrimination or violations of a federal genetic information privacy law.
Appeals panel says $5.2M fine in FTC credit monitoring scam litigation can stand
Judges also corrected an error in an earlier judgment that may have allowed the federal government to improperly claim a portion of the funds meant for restitution
Class action accuses State Farm of refusing burglary, theft claims, especially for Black customers
Aurora woman says insurer wouldn't make white clients jump through as many hoops to process a claim of loss from theft or burglary
People search websites agree to pay $10M settlement to end privacy class actions
Lawyers stand to get 35% of the funds. Individual payouts will vary by state, and whether claimants can prove someone searched their name and then bought a subscription with one of the online people search companies
Appeals panel agrees Walgreens can't yet force Prime to help in fraud lawsuit from Blue Cross parent
Ruling affirms Cook County judge's determination that Walgreens would need to first lose vs Blue Cross before it could try to force Prime Therapeutics to shoulder some of its potential liability in the case accusing Walgreens of allegedly committing fraud by allegedly boosting drug prices charged to Blue Cross
Federal appeals panel vacates $57M fee award in $181M settlement ending chicken price-fixing class action
Chicago federal appeals judges said objectors were right to argue a judge failed to give weight to evidence that the plaintiffs' lawyers have agreed to accept lesser amounts in other class action lawsuits on the West Coast
Ex-McDonald's security chief can continue lawsuit vs McDonald's, CEO for alleged discrimination, retaliation
Federal judge won't dismiss complaint of man who says burger giant set him up to fail after he questioned allegedly racist remarks about Chicago gun violence from McDonald's CEO
Ex-McDonald's workers get another chance to sue over fast food giant's 'no-poach' employment policy
Women say corporate guidelines kept them from obtaining better wages at different locations. A federal judge had dismissed the potentially massive class action lawsuit, describing it in part as an attempt by lawyers to cash in on a "jackpot" of fees, but was ordered by an appeals court to take another look
Judge will leave it to jury to 'decide who to believe' in big court fight over egg prices
Kraft and other commercial food processors allege multi-prong antitrust conspiracy in which egg producers allegedly shipped eggs overseas at low prices to allegedly drive up prices in the U.S.