A contestant on a VH1 reality show is suing rapper “The Game” for $10 million, alleging he sexually assaulted her at a sports bar in suburban Markham in May. On Wednesday, Aug. 5, model Priscilla Rainey, of Palm Beach County, Fla., filed suit in federal court in Chicago against Jayceon Terrell Taylor, who goes by the professional moniker “The Game.”
A seafood wholesaler on Chicago’s West Side will need to continue to work under a federal consent decree governing how it runs its business for at least the next three years, a federal judge has ruled. Eastern Seafood Inc., which operates in the 1000 block of West Hubbard Street in the West Town neighborhood, failed in its bid to persuade a federal judge to end the arrangement ordered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002.
CareerBuilder employees hoping to mount a class-action lawsuit against their employer are going to have to proceed on their own following a ruling in Chicago federal court.
A suburban police chief allegedly told a K-9 officer he was barking up the wrong tree, so the officer went to federal court, claiming his department violated federal law in denying him pay for off-duty time spent caring for a police dog.
A federal judge has popped an Ohio man’s $100 million lawsuit against the Illinois Tollway for allegedly violating his constitutional rights through its toll collection process.
A federal judge has refused to buck a verdict ordering a group of Chicago-area horse track owners to pay about $80 million to four casinos, because the track owners allegedly bribed former Gov. Rod Blagojevich to tax the casinos and hand the purse to horse industry interests. In 2009, Empress Casino and Harrah’s Casino, both in Joliet, as well as Hollywood Casino in Aurora and Grand Victoria Casino Elgin sued several defendants, including Blagojevich and John Johnston, the owner of the Balmoral
The families of those killed when pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region of Ukraine shot down their Malaysian Airlines flight en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur have filed suit against both the airline and the leader of the declared Donetsk People’s Republic, demanding at least $50 million for each passenger aboard the doomed flight.
An antitrust lawsuit unraveled last week when a federal judge ruled in favor of a Chicago-area dress shop accused by one of its competitors of stitching together a monopoly on the local prom dress market.
A lawyer, who works as a legal secretary at Winston & Strawn in Chicago, is seeking at least $6 million in damages from the firm, alleging she was subjected to discrimination and harassment as she suffered hearing loss and symptoms of epilepsy.
A man who worked as a busser at the Mastro’s Steakhouse in Chicago is suing the company for allegedly improperly operating a tip pooling system in violation of state and federal wage laws.
A federal judge has struck down a challenge by a group of Chicago service station and convenience store owners to a city ordinance intended to tamp down the marketing of flavored tobacco products to school children, but which the station operators said amounted to a de facto ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes almost everywhere in Chicago.
The executive assistant to the former schools superintendent in suburban Bellwood has sued the community’s school district for firing her, claiming local politics lay at the center of the school board’s decision to fire her shortly after terminating her boss.
Chiquita Brands is suing Alfredo Linares Inc. for trademark infringement and unfair competition. ALI, Chicquita claims, changed the name of its northern Illinois grocery stores and restaurants to Chiquita Food Market in 2013, and uses the Chiquita name for store-brand meats and spices.
The operators of a prominent Rosemont parking garage and an equipment supplier they hired to design a new gated entry system for their garage and for other vendors to which they wished to market the new product will continue to wage their legal battle after a federal judge ruled the standoff needs further proceedings to be sorted out. On June 10, U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso rejected an attempt
A federal judge and Comcast have found themselves on the same wavelength on whether differing categories of Comcast technicians should be allowed to participate in a class action over whether Comcast shorted the technicians on their pay.
Retailer Kohl’s has won the chance to demonstrate why a group which advocates for the rights of those with disabilities should not be allowed to turn a lawsuit over disability access at its stores into a class action with potential plaintiffs numbering in the thousands.
Several companies who make popular prescription pain killing drugs, including Actavis and Johnson & Johnson, have secured wins in their fight to forestall a lawsuit brought by the city of Chicago, alleging they fraudulently marketed their drugs in the last few decades, leading doctors to prescribe the drugs and compel the city, as its workers’ health insurer, to pay for them when it otherwise should
