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Chicago can't scrap class action accusing city of wrongly seizing, selling cars over unpaid parking tickets
A Chicago federal judge ruled plaintiffs can continue their lawsuit accusing the city of improperly taking their cars because the city may not have sent enough notices to people whose vehicles were being seized -
Appeals panel won't vacate ruling allowing Chicago to impose Covid vaccine mandate on police officers, despite union contract
Arbitrator determined vaccine policy is fair exercise of city's management rights -
Lightfoot gets judge to toss lawsuit from radio host barred from Chicago city press conferences
Police say they revoked Kelly's access to Lightfoot because of his conduct at a July 2022 press conference -
IL Supreme Court agrees Chicago can't be sued over alleged retaliatory rezoning of former Double Door property
Landlord who evicted popular venue alleged ex-Ald. Proco "Joe" Moreno's conduct and alleged threats cost him $9.6M -
Settlement deal: Apple to start charging Chicago streaming tax on nearly all products in Sept.; City to not seek back taxes
Apple had called the city's so-called "Netflix tax" unconstitutional, but opted to settle its lawsuit in July -
Apple drops bid to delete city of Chicago's 'Netflix tax' on streaming entertainment services
After a judge rejected their arguments earlier this spring, Apple opted to quit the episode, rather than continue to try to resume their lawsuit claiming the city's 9% amusement tax was unconstitutional and illegal -
Lawsuit: Chicago cops' use of ShotSpotter leads to wrongful stops, searches, arrests; ShotSpotter disputes the claims
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the Chicago Police to stop using the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system to investigate suspected firearm incidents. ShotSpotter has issued a statement disputing the allegations raised in the lawsuit brought by progressive social justice organization the MacArthur Justice Center. -
Chicago City Hall cleared to continue pursuing lawsuit seeking $300K+ fines vs vape sellers
City alleged companies broke city rules on marketing to minors and liquid tobacco ban -
Metal recycler says it can show Chicago City Hall gave in to undue political pressure to deny permit
A company is claiming Chicago City Hall won't let it build a metal recycling plant on the Southeast Side, because of improper political pressure from community activists -
Appeals panel grants cyclist another chance to continue lawsuit vs City Hall over injuries caused by Chicago pothole
Pothole's proximity to Divvy station gives injured cyclist a chance to press claim of city negligence -
IL appeals panel: Chicago could still be on hook for $100s of millions in alleged illegal ordinance violation fines
State appellate judges have taken the boot off a class action alleging the city skirted a state law capping municipal ordinance fines at $250 each, costing hundreds of thousands of people hundreds of millions of dollars -
Appeals panel: Owners of vehicles impounded for unpaid Chicago tickets can protect cars under bankruptcy proceedings
City can tow and keep cars only after obtaining 'final determinations of liability,' a judicial process, meaning the city can't just keep the cars of people who owe large amounts of unpaid parking and traffic tickets, and filed for bankruptcy protection -
Judge trims Chicago car impound class action, but city still faces suit for selling 'abandoned' cars to tow companies
A federal judge said the city must still answer claims it violated car owners' constitutional property rights by towing "abandoned" cars, and then allegedly sold them to tow companies, often for scrap, before the owners had enough time to retrieve them. -
Appeals panel restarts class action vs Chicago over bogus Central Business District parking tickets
The lawsuit has accused the city of Chicago of wrongly issuing at least 30,000 parking tickets with enhanced penalties for illegally parking in the city's downtown Central Business District, when they weren't parked in the District -
Appeals panel: Underground vault could mean Lyric, opera house owners must pay for woman's sidewalk trip-and-fall
Three state appellate justices have ruled a city permit allowing the Lyric Opera to use a storage vault under a sidewalk adjoining the Civic Opera House allows City Hall to pursue the Lyric and owners of the opera house for coverage in a lawsuit brought by a woman who tripped on that city sidewalk -
DeVore lawsuit targets Chicago vax-or-test mandate for workers, says mandate is illegal
Attorney Tom DeVore has filed suit on behalf of dozens of Chicago city workers, arguing Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine-or-test mandate wasn't issued legally, and violates city workers' due process rights -
Judge powers down Apple's legal challenge to Chicago's 9% streaming tax, for now
A Cook County judge says the tech giant's complaint isn't legally specific enough at this point to be allowed to continue. He gave the company the chance to try again, if it wishes. -
DoorDash can't bring quick end to Chicago's fraud and deception lawsuit
City alleged food delivery company misleads customers about fees, tips and business relationships -
Chicago cop's family given another try at pressing ADA discrimination claims vs city over cop's COVID death
The lawsuit alleges the Chicago Police Department didn't honor a transfer request in March 2020 from a Chicago narcotics division officer who had cystic fibrosis and diabetes. He died from COVID at the end of March 2020. -
Lawyer for Chicago city workers: Courts must address overreach in Lightfoot, Pritzker job or jab COVID vax mandates
In an appellate brief, the workers argued their rights to privacy and bodily autonomy to refuse a vaccine of questionable effectiveness, should be upheld under the same reasoning used by the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a constiutional right to abortion.