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Plaintiff: Baking company Aryzta owes dough for clunky fight over locale for lawsuit over worker fingerprints
The plaintiff in a putative class action suit accusing the bakery company which puts out the Otis Spunkmeyer and La Brea Bakery brands of violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by not telling workers how their fingerprints were handled, is now claiming the company is refusing to pay a portion of the plaintiff's legal costs, as ordered by a federal judge. -
Woman sues Boeing, GE, American Air over injuries suffered after jet engine failed on takeoff
A woman is suing G.E. Aviation Systems LLC, the Boeing Company and American Airlines for allegedly taking insufficient measures to prevent injuries. -
Judge: Fed labor law grounds lawsuit vs American Airlines over shut down of mechanics' hiring incentive program
A federal judge has dismissed an American Airlines worker’s class action over the removal of a special training and advancement program. -
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Man who uses wheelchair suing Cubs for wheelchair seating changes following Wrigley renovations
A man who uses a wheelchair said the Cubs violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by making changes to Wrigley Field that prevent him from watching baseball games from the right field bleachers and seeing the whole game when he sits behind home plate. -
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. -
Retired flight attendants cleared to continue suing American Airlines over change to boarding status perk
A group of American Airlines retirees will be able to continue their lawsuit against the company over changes to their priority boarding status, which they claim was guaranteed to them as a retirement benefit. -
American Airlines, Boeing. G.E. Aviation sued for aircraft engine fire
A woman who claims she was injured when an engine on the airliner on which she was a passenger caught fire on the runway is suing G.E. Aviation Systems LLC, the Boeing Company and American Airlines Inc. for alleged product liability. -
Class action: American Airlines deceived mechanics into taking jobs under hiring incentive program
An American Airlines mechanic has accused his employer of fraud, saying in a class action lawsuit the airline hired him and perhaps hundreds of other workers under the promise of working under a special program under which they would rocket to the top of the company’s wage scale within three years, only to quickly cancel the program soon after he took the job. -
Airline wifi supplier Gogo says ex-lawyers' missteps cost the company patents, market presence
Chicago-based GoGo, facing stiff competition as it looks to maintain is place atop the in-flight wireless Internet market, is going on the offensive against its old legal team, alleging its former lawyers failed to adequately protect Gogo’s patents. -
Amended law, court case help companies challenging unemployment claims
CHICAGO — Employers now have a clearer path to thwart former workers’ unemployment applications thanks to amendments to the Illinois Unemployment Act that took effect last month and the outcome of a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision. -
IL Supreme Court: State wrong to deny unemployment benefits to American Airlines worker fired for upgrading passenger
An American Airlines worker who was fired by the airline for helping a passenger secure a seating upgrade and some champagne for the flight has been cleared to collect unemployment benefits, after the Illinois Supreme Court found, since the worker did nothing illegal or obviously wrong, American Airlines’ lack of clear, written governing how to give passenger upgrades negated the airline’s claims it had the right to fire the worker for “misconduct.” -
State high court overturns appellate ruling pharmacy's attempt to pay class rep should thwart class certification in junk fax action
A class action lawsuit regarding a company’s use of unsolicited faxes as an advertising tool is back where it began, after the Illinois Supreme Court reversed an appellate court’s ruling and agreed with the initial ruling by the circuit court that a defendant cannot render a motion for class action moot simply by settling with the initial class representative.
