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Appeals court: Fired gay music minister can't claim 'hostile work environment' to sue Archdiocese for discrimination
A divided 10-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court said the former music minister can't use hostile work environment claims to sidestep the Catholic Church's First Amendment protection in church ministerial employment decisions. -
Former Homewood country club 'free agent' after judge OKs contentious disconnection from village
A Cook County judge refused to consider objections from activists opposed to a plan to bring $100M warehouse and distribution hub to a defunct south suburban country club. -
Homewood country club developer wins disconnection, seeks to end court fight vs village, activists
Developers say the Homewood Village Board's decision to OK an ordinance disconnecting the Calumet Country Club from the village should allow them to dismiss their lawsuit. Activists opposing the development say dismissing the case would violate their rights. -
Illinois' car dealers lawsuit: State of IL illegally letting Tesla, Rivian sell electric cars direct to consumers
Illinois' car dealers have signed on to a legal action seeking to force Secretary of State Jesse White to pull the plug on arrangements allowing electric car makers to sidestep state law in the way they sell their cars. -
Appeals panel: Churches should be able to be sued under discrimination laws for 'hostile work environments'
A federal appeals panel in Chicago said a fired gay Catholic church music director should be allowed to proceed with his lawsuit against the Chicago Archdiocese, because the First Amendment isn't an absolute shield for churches' employment decisions. -
Appeals court says suit seeking to stop Obama Center doesn't belong in federal court
U.S. appeals panel tosses suit seeking to block Obama center in Jackson Park, says case belongs in state court -
Archdiocese: 7th Circuit should decide if fired gay ex-church music director can sue for hostile work environment
The Chicago Archdiocese is asking a federal judge for permission to take straight to a federal appeals court the question of whether a Calumet City church music director, who has accused the local Catholic Church of firing him for being gay, can sidestep the legal latitude afforded churches under the Constitution by repackaging his lawsuit to instead argue the church subjected him to a hostile work environment. -
City fights back vs effort to block Obama Center, says plan legally sound, will benefit Jackson Park
The city of Chicago is defending its plan to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, against a court challenge, saying the group behind the challenge is on soggy legal ground in seeking an injunction by contending the park was once under Lake Michigan and so is protected from development. -
Integrity Trade Services alleges former manager is using confidential information at job with competitor
A national staffing company based in Frankfort alleges that a former sales manager in Texas is soliciting customers in violation of an agreement. -
Judge again nixes gay, diabetic ex-church music director's sex harassment suit, but OKs disability claim
A gay former church music director has failed again to persuade a judge to let him sue the Catholic church for discrimination over his sexual orientation. But the man will be allowed to press forward with claims the church’s pastor allegedly harassed him about a medical condition. -
Ex-church worker: Restore $700K verdict to punish church for painting her as 'deranged' in workplace porn tiff
A woman, fired by the Chicago Catholic Archdiocese allegedly in retaliation for reporting contractor watching porn on church computer, has asked a federal judge to reconsider the decision to slice her $700,000 jury award, saying the church needs to be punished for allegedly wrongly painting her as "deranged." -
Democratic donor Hull asks to limit deposition to thwart political fishing expedition by Madigan lawyers
A former Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat ultimately captured by Barack Obama has asked a federal judge to block lawyers for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan from using a forthcoming deposition as a fishing expedition to dig up political intelligence on potential political opponents of the powerful chairman of the state Democratic Party. -
Ex-St. Stanislaus parish music director loses job discrimination case; ministerial exception applies
A federal judge has closed the book on age and nationality discrimination allegations brought against the Catholic Bishop of Chicago by a Polish former parish music director, as the judge said the music director and organist should be considered a "ministerial" employee, and thus exempt from certain anti-discrimination employment rules. -
Former employee accused of sharing CIB trade secrets with competitor
The Corporation for International Business (CIB) filed a lawsuit on May 16 in Cook County Circuit Court, accusing Andrew F. Salaverria and his technology consulting firm Peliksa Technologies of violating the Illinois Trade Secrets Act. -
Church's fired gay music director tries harassment claim to negate church's 'ministerial exception' defense
A man who lost his federal lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Chicago, which claimed the church wrongly fired him from his music director job at a suburban church for marrying another man, is back in court for another try, arguing the church's ministerial exception defense doesn't apply, because the harassment he allegedly suffered was not ecclesiastical in nature. -
Judge: 'Ministerial exception' gives church right to fire gay music director after he marries
A man fired from his job at a suburban church after marrying another man lost the federal discrimination lawsuit he filed against the church and the Archdiocese of Chicago. -
Judge: Failure to accurately cite website could doom class action vs Bumbo over baby seats
A federal judge has, for now, denied an attempt to bring a class action lawsuit by people claiming Bumbo deceptively marketed its baby seats. -
Catholic church can't be sued for discriminating against gay man fired as music director: Judge
A federal judge has turned aside a discrimination lawsuit brought by a gay man against the Roman Catholic Chicago Archdiocese for firing him from his role as music director at a church in suburban Inverness after he publicly announced his wedding engagement, saying the man’s tasks in his job at the church meant he “served an integral role in the celebration of mass,” and thus anti-discrimination laws did not apply to him. -
Judge: Fired music director may be able to sue Chicago Catholic Church for age, ethnicity discrimination
A former longtime music director for a Chicago Catholic church, who alleged he was demoted and fired for being ethnic Polish and a senior citizen, might be able to sue for discrimination after reworking his complaint to prevent the church from exercising its ministerial exception rights. -
Woman can't sue Chase for distress over contractors sent to secure foreclosed home: IL Supreme Court
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled plaintiffs need to suffer “physical impact” to pursue a lawsuit claiming negligent infliction of emotional distress, saying a lender had not breached the bounds of decency by sending contractors to change the locks and perform other maintenance on her home, which was in foreclosure, while she was still inside.