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Aurora Pride says city unconstitutionally hassled, boosted costs for Pride Parade over organizers' anti-cop positions
A new federal lawsuit asks a judge to declare Aurora's Special Events Ordinance unconstitutional for giving city officials too much leeway to retaliate against groups whose speech the officials find objectionable -
Jury says Sterigenics not liable for woman's cancer, in second trial over Willowbrook EtO emissions
The verdict comes two months after a different jury ordered Sterigenics to pay $363 million to a different woman, also over claims Sterigenics' emissions allegedly caused her cancer. Sterigenics still faces hundreds of other similar lawsuits. -
Judge won't dismiss class action lawsuit accusing elite colleges, universities of financial aid collusion
Plaintiffs claims tuition would've been cheaper but for an agreement among some of America's top colleges and universities, including University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Brown, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Duke, among others. -
IL Supreme Court denies Sterigenics plaintiffs' bid to slap hold on first trial over EtO emissions
Plaintiffs suing medical device sterilizer Sterigenics had sought to shut down the first trial over whether Sterigenics' emissions caused cancer, saying a Cook County judge had abused her discretion in rejecting their attempts to bring the cases to trial together, rather than individually -
Judge nixes bid by Sterigenics, other corporate defendants to avoid trial, risk of bigger payouts for EtO emissions
A Cook County judge denied requests from medical device sterilization company Sterigenics and other defendants, including Griffith Foods, for summary judgment as the first trial date approaches over claims the companies allowed emissions from a Willowbrook plant that allegedly caused cancer -
Sterigenics plaintiffs ask IL Supreme Court to step in to upend Cook judge's rulings
The plaintiffs call Cook County judge's decisions 'absurd and antithetical to ... prompt justice,' and denial of their clients' rights to prompt trials -
Sterigenics plaintiffs to ask IL Supreme Court to step into dispute over how looming trial will proceed
Hundreds of lawsuits are pending, claiming EtO emissions from Sterigenics caused cancer in Willowbrook. The first trial is scheduled to begin next month -
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Equity firm GTCR, formerly headed by Rauner, says it never owned, operated Sterigenics, should exit EtO suits
Lawsuits accusing Sterigenics' emissions of causing cancer have long included GTCR as a co-defendant, which enabled current Gov. JB Pritzker to blame former Gov. Bruce Rauner in the 2018 campaign. GTCR says it only advised other investors associated with Sterigenics' parent -
Judge nixes Exelon request to get legal questions answered on appeal in shareholder suit over alleged Madigan bribes
A federal judge ruled granting Exelon's request for an appeal to answer potentially important legal questions in the case could slow the litigation -
Judge nixes bid from Griffith Foods to toss Willowbrook EtO suits; Hundreds of identical lawsuits filed since
More than 460 lawsuits have been filed in Cook County court against Griffith Foods since a judge refused Griffith's attempt to dismiss claims asserting they should be liable for ethylene oxide emissions from the former Sterigenics medical sterilization plant in Willowbrook -
Exelon, ComEd execs can't convince judge to cancel investor fraud lawsuit over alleged Madigan bribery scheme
Federal judge says the shareholder plaintiffs have done enough so far to demonstrate ComEd allegedly willfully concealed the alleged bribery scheme from its shareholders. -
Judge drills attempt by insurer Delta Dental to yank dentists' antitrust lawsuits
The judge said the dentists and American Dental Association have done enough so far to back up their claims that Delta Dental and its subsidiaries use their market position to force the dentists to accept lower payments. -
Appeals panel further cuts punitive damages in health care software trade secrets court fight
Federal jury in Wisconsin said Tata took Epic Systems information to market its own product, but that doesn't mean Tata can be made to pay $280 million in punitive damages. -
Plaintiffs' lawyers file 600 more personal injury lawsuits vs Sterigenics, now also suing Griffith Foods
Alsip-based Griffith Foods says it has had nothing to do with the shuttered Willowbrook sterilization plant for more than 20 years. -
Appeals panel: Blackmail' objectors must give up $130K collected from holding up Target, Rexall class action deal
The appeals court said a federal judge was wrong to let the deal go forward, when the objectors only sought to extract a payday for themselves from someone else's deal. -
Judge: AbbVie's "patent thicket," deals to keep control over Humira doesn't mean drugmaker broke antitrust laws
AbbVie had accumulated hundreds of patents to protect its claim to Humira's big money sales, but that doesn't mean they broke the law, a judge has ruled, dismissing a slew of class action claims. -
Sterigenics says shouldn't be allowed to be sued for emissions approved by state, federal agencies
State and federal agencies approved operations at a medical device sterilization facility in suburban Willowbrook, the company argues in documents again asking a court to dismiss lawsuits alleging the plant's emissions caused cancer.