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Gay janitor sues Cicero school district over years of alleged sexual harassment from supervisors, coworkers
A janitor at Cicero School District 99 filed the lawsuit in federal court, asserting district officials didn't do anything to stop years of alleged sexual harassment from supervisors and other coworkers, who allegedly targeted him because he is gay -
Class action: Big companies buying up mobile home parks, driving up rents, pricing out seniors
A new lawsuit accuses some of the largest owners and operators of manufactured home communities of violating federal antitrust laws by conspiring on setting rents -
Koch, HRF agree to pay $75M to settle supermarkets' chicken price fixing suits
Deals mean chicken producers have collectively paid $284 million so far to settle lawsuits brought by supermarkets and other so-called "direct purchasers," claiming they conspired to artificially boost chicken prices. Lawyers are generally claiming about one-third of the payouts. -
Blue Cross Blue Shield hit with class action over data breach
A class action lawsuit has been filed against health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield on behalf of customers who may have had their personal information exposed -
Lawsuit: Bank wrongly seized, attempted to return SBA loan funds from Black-owned janitorial company
The owners of a janitorial company, who are Black, have filed suit against Midland State Bank, saying the bank wrongly seized an SBA business loan because bank workers allegedly believed they had committed fraud -
Judge: U of I doesn't formally sell Chief Illiniwek gear, but doesn't mean anyone else can without risking lawsuit
A federal judge declared a decision by the University of Illinois to license its banned Chief logo to the College Vault allows the university to plausibly claim it hasn't "abandoned" the trademark -
Judge: Lawsuits vs Smith & Wesson over Highland Park massacre belong in Lake County, not federal court
A federal judge rejected Smith & Wesson's claims the lawsuits vs the gun maker represent an attempt by anti-gun activists to sidestep federal law and restrict Second Amendment rights -
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 -
BNSF, truck drivers in apparent deal to end biometrics court fight worth hundreds of millions of dollars
A judge had tossed out a $228M verdict vs BNSF Railway in July in a long-running court battle over claims BNSF had wrongly required truck drivers to scan hand prints when entering secure rail yards in Illinois -
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 -
Lawsuit says White Sox discriminate by making it hard to buy wheelchair accessible seats online
The class action lawsuit, filed by a wheelchair user and a man with limited mobility who uses a motorized scooter, accuses the Chicago White Sox of not allowing people to select and purchase accessible seats online as easily as the team does for standard tickets -
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 -
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. -
Dispatchers sue village of Hillside, 911 call center, claiming they were shorted OT pay
A group of 9-1-1 dispatchers have sued the village of Hillside and the Proviso Central Dispatch Center, claiming they have been wrongly denied overtime pay, despite working long hours, often over 40 hours a week. -
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