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The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on July 27. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on July 16. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on July 30. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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A state appeals panel breathed new life into a lawsuit suburban homeowners brought against municipalities, claiming they should be held liable for allowing Advocate Lutheran General Hospital to discharge stormwater they say has flooded their properties.
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Cassiday Schade is pleased to annonce that eight attorneys have been named 2019 Super Lawyers Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters.
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The following joint action-related cases were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Jan. 4. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The following joint action-related cases were on the docket in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Jan. 7. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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A state appeals panel has said ExxonMobil can't be held accountable for severe injuries suffered by a worker in a mishap at the company's Joliet refinery, affirming a Cook County judge's findings that the oil and gas company had limited or no knowledge of the contract employer's allegedly unsafe procedures on the job site.
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Cassiday Schade is pleased to announce two attorneys from our firm have been recognized in the 2019 edition of the Best Lawyers in America©.
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Jean M. Golden, a partner in the firm’s Chicago office, has been selected for an Illinois associate judgeship in Cook County. Golden was one of 17 associate judges selected.
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Five current associate judges and 11 lawyers will take the bench in Cook County this summer, after the Cook County Circuit Court’s 252 elected circuit judges selected them to be appointed to serve as associate judges, filling vacancies in local courtrooms until at least next summer.
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Noting there is a possibility contractor Ledcor could yet be ordered to pay for injuries suffered on a job site by another company's employee, a state appeals panel has refused to let Pekin Insurance walk away from the case.
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A University of Chicago student suing the school over anti-male bias built into its sexual assault investigation system is continuing his lawsuit against the school, in which he is demanding $1.35 million, even though the school purportedly dropped its disciplinary action against him, and after he settled with a female student who allegedly triggered the disciplinary action by accusing him of sexual assault.
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A high-profile lawsuit brought against an Illinois sperm bank by a white woman who claims she was wrongfully impregnated by a black donor’s sperm is on hold after a federal judge in Chicago granted a motion to stay the case, to allow an Illinois appeals court to decide the fate of a nearly identical lawsuit dismissed from DuPage County court.
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A CEO is suing Yelp Inc., seeking expedited discovery in connection with alleged defamation.
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A state appeals panel has cut through a complex web of legal malpractice actions brought by a man who had essentially alleged many of his ex-lawyers had conspired with intercity bus operator Greyhound Lines to keep him from suing over his wife’s death in a bus accident 15 years ago. The appellate order upheld a circuit court ruling on the consolidated cases that has involved several Illinois attorneys and more than 25 appeals.
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Unraveling what it called a “classic clash of apparently conflicting statutes,” an Illinois appeals panel has ruled the family of a woman who died while her medical negligence lawsuit was pending against a doctor, the University of Chicago Medical Center and affiliates is not blocked by a statute of repose from adding wrongful death claims to the preexisting lawsuit.
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A $5 million settlement has been approved for a 64-year-old woman who claimed treatment she received at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights left her with brain damage.
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Park Ridge homeowners have retained a window of hope in their campaign to hold neighboring Advocate Lutheran General Hospital liable for flooding. After the Cook County Circuit Court dismissed two counts of the homeowners’ class-action complaint, the First District Appellate Court reversed one of those dismissals in an unpublished order issued in December. The issue arose from a Sept. 13, 2008, storm and a subsequent Feb. 12, 2009, class action complaint.
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The family of a man who died after undergoing knee replacement surgery at Presence Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago has been awarded $8.25 million dollars.
