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United Continental pilots' class action suit vs their union should survive, judge says
A federal judge has grounded an airline pilots’ union’s efforts to dodge a class-action lawsuit by arguing the claims brought by the suit expired while the case was on appeal, and the class action over pay owed to pilot instructors will continue. -
Class action: United Airlines shorting employees pay when on short-term military service
United Airlines is facing a federal class action from airline workers who say the company isn’t fully paying them for their time away on active military duty. -
Judge: Ex-O'Hare cops can keep suing city over aviation police disbanding following United passenger dragging
A federal judge has let the state off the hook in a class action complaint airport police officers filed after a high-profile incident with a passenger, but the city of Chicago wasn’t able to earn a full dismissal. -
Service cart on United Airlines flight alleged to have caused passenger's knee injury
A Virginia resident alleges a service cart on a flight caused knee injuries. -
United Airlines sued for inflicting "traumatic stress" after emergency landing
Passengers are suing United Airlines Inc. and CommutAir, claiming they were traumatized when the plane they were traveling in had to make an emergency landing. -
Appeals court lets pilots’ suit take off again, says fliers’ union may have breached representation duty
A dismissed suit by United Airlines pilot instructors, which alleged their union unfairly divided retroactive pay among different pilot categories, is flying again, courtesy of a Chicago federal appeals panel that ruled a lower court should not have grounded the suit, because the instructors plausibly argued the union gave them the short end of the stick. -
CORBOY & DEMETRIO: Corboy & Demetrio files lawsuits for 11 passengers in Aeromexico Flight 2431 Plane Crash
Corboy & Demetrio filed six lawsuits on behalf of 11 passengers on Aeromexico Flight 2431, which crashed after an attempted take-off in a heavy storm including severe wind, rain, and hail, on July 31, 2018, in Durango, Mexico. The aircraft, en route to Mexico City, hit the ground a few hundred yards from the runway of the General Guadalupe Victoria International Airport. -
Judge: Pilots' union didn't discriminate vs senior flight instructors in agreeing with United to change rules
A federal judge has handed a win to a pilots’ union facing an age discrimination lawsuit from three of its members, who accused their union of being “complicit” in working with United Airlines to impose new standards the plaintiffs said were intended to flush out older workers. -
United Airlines accused of negligence after passenger allegedly hurt when pilot hit brakes to avoid collision
A woman is suing United Airlines, a pilot and the ity of Chicago for alleged negligence, claiming she was injured when an aircraft on which she was a passenger suddenly braked. -
United Airlines, others accused of defamation and wrongful termination by officer who forcefully removed passenger
A former Chicago Aviation Police officer is suing United Airlines and the city of Chicago's Department of Aviation for alleged defamation and wrongful termination. -
United Airlines employees allegedly failed to help woman in wheelchair sit down on aircraft
An airline passenger is suing United and United Express, citing alleged breach of duty and negligence for not helping her transfer from a wheelchair to her seat on the aircraft. -
Class action: United Airlines charged online reservation change fees, even when it said it would not
United Airlines is facing a class action complaint from customers who said they were charged online change fees, despite the airlines' assurances they would not, if they rebooked a flight with United within a year of cancelling their reservations. -
New worker fingerprint class actions now target Southwest, American airlines, Hilton, Wyndham hotels
Southwest and American airlines, and hotel and resort operators Hilton and Wyndham, have been added to the large and growing list of employers in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois targeted by class action lawsuits accusing them of not securing their workers’ written authorization before scanning their fingerprints into their company databases to more accurately log and track their employees’ work hours. -
Cook County again lands prime spot on legal reform group's 'Judicial Hellholes' list
Cook County’s courts have again landed a top billing among America’s worst “judicial hellholes,” sharing the designation with downstate Madison County on the annual list calling attention to some of the country’s most litigious local court systems. -
Aramark tagged with worker fingerprint class action under IL privacy law
Aramark, one of the country’s largest employers, providing food service and other vendor services to Chicago’s Soldier Field and numerous schools, corporate headquarters, hospitals, prisons and other institutional facilities throughout Illinois, has become one of the latest targets among a growing number of lawsuits under an Illinois privacy law, accusing employers of not properly handling the process of scanning and managing their employees’ fingerprints to log employees’ work hours. -
United Airlines wins judgment in discrimination case brought by man accused of taking food from plane
A Chicago federal judge has found United Airlines didn't discriminate against an African-American former employee who sued the company after he was fired for allegedly taking food from an airplane during a layover. -
Judge sinks footlong sub sandwich suit, calls dismissed action ‘worthless’ and a ‘racket’
A Chicago federal appeals panel suffered heartburn from a class-action suit, which claimed Subway Footlong sandwiches cheat customers by occasionally measuring just under a foot, likening the litigation to a “racket” that lines the pockets of plaintiffs’ lawyers, but does little else -
Circle K, Jewel, Subway added to list of shops sued over collection of Cook County's 'pop tax'
Add three more retailers and restaurants to the list of those targeted by lawsuits over the collection of Cook County’s so-called “pop tax,” as new plaintiffs have brought actions against Circle K convenience stores, Jewel food stores and Subway restaurants operating in and around Chicago. -
Judge denies request to block Chicago from stripping 'police' title from airport security officers
A labor union representing the Chicago airport security officers formerly designated as Chicago Aviation Police has failed for now in its attempt to block City Hall from removing the title of “police” from the officers in the wake of a high-profile passenger dragging incident at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. -
Class action adds 7-Eleven to list of retailers being sued for Cook County 'pop tax' collections
Add 7-Eleven to the list of retailers now facing a class action lawsuit over the collection of Cook County’s controversial so-called ‘pop tax.’