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Family sues Chicago, cops, over mistaken 2015 police raid on West Side home
A family on Chicago's West Side says they were traumatized by a mistaken 2015 raid on their home by Chicago police searching for a suspect, who at the time was in an Illinois state prison, serving a 40 year sentence for first degree murder. -
Appeals court: Insurance executive can press illegal tax shelter suit vs Northern Trust, Christiana Bank, not Seyfarth Shaw
An insurance executive facing a $10 million bill for unpaid income taxes can sue his former financial advisors, but not the law firm that employed the lawyer who the executive said misled him into hiding $64 million in an illegal tax shelter. -
Business group: Chicago work scheduling rules unconstitutional, should be blocked
Building owners group said ordinance unconstitutionally targets only seven industries. -
Judge: Supreme Court decision barring forced union fees doesn't rid unions of responsibility to represent all workers
Unions can’t use a recent anti-union Supreme Court decision to rid themselves of their responsibility under the law to represent all workers in a collective bargaining unit, whether or not those workers pay union dues, a federal judge has ruled. -
U of Chicago wants hospital dismissed from class action accusing it of sharing patient data with Google
The University of Chicago has asked to be dismissed from a class action lawsuit accusing Google and the university's hospital of improperly sharing patient data, as the hospital asserted the plaintiffs haven't been able to demonstrate how the hospital harmed anyone. -
Dog owner who was arrested, and dog seized, can continue false arrest, conspiracy suit vs Chicago City Hall, cops
A dog owner who alleges he was falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted amid claims he mistreated his dog can continue to sue two police officers, an animal control official, and the city of Chicago, a federal court has ruled. -
Judge says BNSF can't use federal law to cut out on biometrics class action over trucker handprint scans
A federal judge has rejected a railroad’s attempt to escape a class action lawsuit filed by a truck driver over the railroad's rules requiring drivers to scan handprints to verify their identity when entering secure rail yards. -
Wells Fargo: Cook County hiding potential profit from foreclosures; County: Wells Fargo 'ignoring' county document requests
Wells Fargo has accused Cook County of "cherry-picking" which documents it discloses, to obscure how much money the county may have collected from processing home foreclosures. -
Suit alleges HCSC uses faulty guidelines to deny claims for inpatient mental health care
A woman has filed for a class action in Chicago federal court against one of the nation’s largest health insurance administrators, alleging the company tries to save money by refusing to cover residential mental health treatment on grounds such treatment is unnecessary. -
Biometrics class actions rising in Illinois, show no signs of abating. What can you do?
Class action lawsuits under the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act continue to mount following a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision. Husch Blackwell lawyers offer a look at what that could mean to you. -
Lawyers get $3.1M, robocall recipients $22 each, to settle telemarketing class action vs cruise lines
Plaintiff attorneys will collect $3.1 million from the settlement of a class action suit, alleging a defunct suburban travel agency made illegal telemarketing calls for cruise ship companies. People who received the calls would pocket about $22 each. -
Nerium lawsuit: Block FTC from 'rewriting' law to shut down legal companies as 'pyramid schemes'
"Multi-level marketing" business Nerium is suing the FTC, claiming the federal agency is rewriting federal laws to relabel and shut down all MLMs as "pyramid schemes." -
Federal judge says CTA bus driver fired after 9 years on medical leave has work to do in ADA lawsuit
A former CTA bus driver who spent nine years mostly on medical leave before he eventually was fired will have to do a better job in a third attempt to sue the CTA, a federal judge recently ruled. -
Lawyers get $5.3M in settlement of investor class action against drugmaker AbbVie over scrapped Shire deal
Plaintiff attorneys are collecting $5.3 million for handling a class action against North Chicago-based drugmaker AbbVie, which alleged the company hid information that caused investors in a European company to lose millions after AbbVie pulled out of a merger. -
Judge voids $16M deal between Kraft, feds; If CFTC officials can't be bound by deal, there is no deal, judge says
A federal judge has trashed a $16 million settlement deal the U .S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission reached with Kraft Foods, because commissioners’ public statements said too much about what Kraft believed was a confidential settlement. -
Not every crime victim can 'discuss crime on Good Morning America:' Judge OKs city suit vs Smollett
Judge says Smollett can't sidestep city's lawsuit over hoax "MAGA" assault report and says his dismissal motion was just an attempt to "muddy the waters" and distract from city's claims. -
7th Circuit: Judge can't force CFTC commissioners, chairman to testify, face contempt for violating Kraft deal gag order
A federal appeals panel has blocked a federal judge from forcing officials with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from testifying or facing potential contempt charges amid an inquiry over whether press releases about a deal between the federal agency and Kraft Foods violated a gag order. -
Appeals panel turns out lights on Chicago film studio's antitrust suit vs IL Film Office
A federal appeals panel has ruled an Illinois state agency didn't violate antitrust laws in how it apportioned the state's support for competing Chicago film studios. -
Feds say Natl. Assoc. of Realtors misinterprets consent decree to fight antitrust class action
The U.S. Justice Department has jumped into an antitrust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors, arguing a deal the association inked with the federal government years ago may not cover the claims at issue in the antitrust suit. -
Judge: Fired female instructor's discrimination suit vs Moody barred by religious liberty questions
A federal judge has tossed discrimination claims brought by a fired female instructor at Moody Bible Institute, as the judge ruled the lawsuit was barred by Supreme Court decisions mostly shielding churches and religious schools from discrimination laws.