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Appeals panel: Private investigator's $25M defamation suit OK vs filmmakers, writers, others over Alstory Simon case
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Condo association allowed to challenge PTSD claims in elevator flap with wife of bankruptcy lawyer Geraci: Appeals judges
A federal appeals court said a lower court judge was correct in ruling against the wife of prominent Chicago area bankruptcy lawyer Peter Francis Geraci in her dispute with her condominium building over elevator access, saying a judge and jury didn’t break any rules in allowing the condo association to contest her claims to being disabled. -
Wife of bankruptcy lawyer Geraci doesn't get to have special elevator access to avoid dogs, jury says
The wife of prominent Chicago area bankruptcy lawyer Peter Francis Geraci has failed to persuade a jury her post-traumatic stress disorder, which she claims was triggered by a dog attack years ago, should allow her to use federal disability law to force the association that manages the Chicago condo building in which she lives to give her the right to ride alone in the building’s elevator, to avoid sharing the elevator with her neighbors’ dogs.