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O'Hare aviation security officers can't sue city for stripping police powers after 2017 passenger dragging video, judge says
The judge said the Chicago Department of Aviation, which employed the aviation security officers, wasn't really a law enforcement agency, so the ASOs weren't really cops. -
Greenberg Traurig’s Gregory Ostfeld Awarded for Excellence in Pro Bono Service
Greenberg Traurig’s Gregory Ostfeld Awarded for Excellence in Pro Bono Service. -
Midway worker reported alleged lies about runway conditions, OK to continue retaliation suit vs city, ex-bosses
FAA, Chicago inspector general affirmed reports of falsified runway information, allegedly to benefit Southwest -
Appeals panel: Unionized workers can't press individual biometric legal claims vs employers over punch clock fingerprint scans
A federal appeals court says people who belong to a union can't sue their employers individually under Illinois' biometric privacy law, and can't press their claims in arbitration, either. -
Federal appeals panel agrees past Chicago Public Schools layoffs weren't racist, dealing another blow to CTU
Union said Black workers were disproportionately laid off in 2011, while CPS blamed declining enrollment. -
Naperville Fire paramedics sue city, Pritzker over vax mandates
The paramedics argue the vaccination and testing mandates take no account for natural immunity, violate their rights to "bodily autonomy" and due process, and are unconstitutional. -
Rosebud can't sue insurer for losses suffered amid Pritzker-ordered COVID closures
A federal judge says the Italian restaurant chain's insurance policy doesn't cover the large losses it suffered when it closed to comply with Gov. JB Pritzker's closure orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. -
Judge says IL federal courts can't tell California to refund thousands seized from IL e-tailer over sales tax dispute
The state of California says Glen Ellyn woman's online children's clothing shop owes more than $7,500 in sales taxes. A judge says only California courts, and maybe SCOTUS, can help her now. -
Ex-Morton College Inspector General says was wrongly fired after complaining of misconduct by college leaders
In a lawsuit, the former inspector general at Morton College in Cicero accused the college's president and others of allegedly conspiring to spend college funds for personal use and of allegedly improperly installing the college's athletic director. -
Northwestern students can't sue after school closed campus over COVID, but charged full price tuition, judge says
A federal judge in Chicago said the students failed to provide a contract showing Northwestern University ever guaranteed in-person learning -
Class action: Samsung smartphones, tablets scan faces of people in photos, violating IL biometrics law
The lawsuit in Chicago court says users can't turn off facial recognition tech in the Samsung Gallery photo app, and Samsung doesn't tell users its app is creating facial templates for everyone whose image is captured in the photos on Samsung phones and tablets. -
Judge: Lawsuit can continue vs Lake County circuit clerk over political firings of office supervisors
A judge has ruled former Lake County Circuit Clerk Office supervisors may press their lawsuit, which alleges Circuit Clerk Erin Weinstein, a Democrat, fired them for backing her opponent, the Republican incumbent. -
Judge allows feds to reimpose $5M fines vs credit monitoring firm under different law, after SCOTUS said original fines illegal
A federal judge said the FTC can modify its fraud complaint vs Credit Bureau Center to press for fines under a different section of federal law, after the Supreme Court said the law under which it had pressed the original complaint didn't allow them to levy fines - a move the company called unfair. -
$181M chicken price fixing settlements could net lawyers $60M+, uncertain payout for consumers
The settlement administrators began accepting consumer claims on Sept. 11 from anyone in the U.S. who says they bought chicken from 2009-2020, and wants a share of the approximately $111 million left after the lawyers get paid. -
Pritzker must show corrupt hiring has stopped, can't easily restart, to end feds' oversight of IL govt jobs, reformers say
Two longtime reform advocates told a federal appeals court that Gov. JB Pritzker has not yet met the burden needed to win release from federal court orders imposing federal oversight of state hiring practices, despite Pritzker's claims to the contrary -
White Castle: IL biometrics law not designed to 'bankrupt employers,' should be limited; Judges could punt to IL Supreme Court
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh CIrcuit Court of Appeals expressed doubt during oral arguments over whether they are the court that should address a key legal question over how to decide how much money employers may owe in lawsuit payouts under the Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act. -
Ban on concealed carry on Cook County Forest Preserve lands unconstitutional, judge rules
A federal judge in Chicago struck down a state law that prohibits concealed carry on Cook County Forest Preserve District sites. The judge gave Illinois state lawmakers six months to try to fix the law. -
Judge: Moody Bible used religion as 'pretext' to hide alleged discrimination vs fired female teacher; Moody appeals
Chicago's Moody Bible Institute says a federal judge improperly ignored Supreme Court rulings on whether the First Amendment protects them from a discrimination lawsuit brought by a female instructor allegedly fired over doctrinal clashes. -
Hakimi Joins HeplerBroom as Associate
Hakimi Joins HeplerBroom as Associate. -
Judge: COVID gathering limits not likely to return, so IL GOP can't sue Pritzker over earlier shutdowns
Republicans had argued Gov. JB Pritzker's COVID-related limits on the size of political gatherings were unconstitutional, because he selectively enforced them, allowing huge Black Lives Matter protests, while shutting down GOP gatherings in 2020.