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Federal judge says insurer not obligated to cover legal defense of gun shop sued by Highland Park victims
Red Dot Arms facing allegations it illegally transferred weapons to accused parade mass killer
Appeals panel agrees tenants can't sue landlords for not disclosing interest rates on security deposits they never paid
The plaintiffs are seeking to expand a "no-injury" standard that had been created by the Illinois Supreme Court for big money class actions under Illinois' biometric privacy law to now apply to class action lawsuits under Chicago's landlord-tenant ordinance
Illinois Supreme Court agrees uninsured motorist policies cover bicyclists hit by cars
Unanimous opinion holds the language in a policy issued by Direct Auto violated the requirements in Illinois' insurance laws
IL Supreme Court agrees law firm can't be sued for discussing client's medical information in post-trial press release
A man had claimed the law firm of Burke Wise Morrissey & Kaveny had violated his rights under the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act by discussing his personal medical information in a press release trumpeting a $4 million verdict they won for him
IL Supreme Court: Plaintiffs don't need to ID proper personal estate representative before suing dead person
A split Illinois Supreme Court ruled insurer State Farm couldn't defeat a lawsuit against a deceased man for insurance proceeds by arguing the plaintiff failed to properly identify and sue a personal representative of the dead man's estate. The majority said it was enough to ask a court to appoint a special representative instead
ComEd customers can't continue fraud suit against utility connected to Madigan bribery investigation
Appeals panel rules litigation improperly questions motivations of General Assembly
IL appeals court says class action can resume vs court clerks over foreclosure filing fees
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul had argued people who had paid the unconstitutional court fees needed to bring their claims to the Illinois state Court of Claims. Judges, though, said since the law was unconstitutional, the plaintiffs' demands for refunds can remain in circuit court
IL Supreme Court: Family OK to sue nursing home for injuries suffered by woman before death, despite arbitration clause
6-0 ruling by state high court declared the arbitration clause that would have governed claims by the woman does not apply to the same claims brought by her family, because the arbitration clause expired when the woman died.
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.