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Exotic dancer brings class action vs. South Loop adult dance club over unpaid wages
An exotic dancer has filed a class action suit against the club at which she works, alleging the club’s owners have improperly designated her and the club’s dozens of other dancers as “independent contractors,” denying them wages and overtime pay she alleges the dancers are due under federal labor law. -
Federal judge nixes drug companies' attempt to void city's contract with Cohen Milstein firm in opioid lawsuit
A federal judge on Monday denied a request for relief from a group of pharmaceutical companies being sued by the City of Chicago over the marketing of opioid painkillers. -
Third District reverses $588K attorneys fee award in dispute between Chicago, Peoria firms; remands for recalculation
OTTAWA -- A state appeals panel has voided a Peoria County judge’s award of more than $588,000 in legal fees to a Peoria law firm after finding a contingency fee deal involving an attorney who left that firm to join a Chicago firm was improperly used to apportion legal fees. -
Iowa women file class action in Chicago over herbal supplements
Just days after the New York Attorney General’s office ordered several major pharmacy retailers to stop selling store brand herbal supplements, two Iowa women launched a federal class action suit against the retailers in Illinois, claiming the retailers should pay up for allegedly fraudulently marketing herbal supplements. -
Ill. Bible College Association sues over state regulation of degrees
A group of Illinois religious colleges is beseeching a higher power for the right to offer accredited degrees. -
Judge gives Prenda Law, Duffy two weeks to pay $11K-plus sanction in ongoing defamation case
DuffyChicago attorney Paul Duffy and the now-dissolved Prenda Law firm have two weeks to fork over more than $11,000 in sanctions a federal judge ordered last year in the defamation suit they filed nearly two years ago.U.S. District Judge John Darrah handed down the deadline Tuesday, when he also denied the embattled duo's motion to dismiss the counterclaims levied by Minnesota attorney Paul Godfread -
Federal judge sides with Fox Lake, mayor in political retaliation lawsuit
A federal judge has backed the mayor of Fox Lake’s contention he had the right to fire a building commissioner who strongly backed his political opponent, tossing most of the former official’s litigation against the suburban Chicago village and its mayor for wrongfully firing and retaliating against him for exercising his constitutional free speech rights. -
Suits accuse A&E, FX, Tribune Media and Shazam of patent infringement
A Belizian company has filed a spate of lawsuits against American television networks and broadcast companies, as well as at least one internet startup. -
NY judge says Chicago man cheated business partner out of $15M in sale of military logistics company
A U.S. veteran was denied more than $15 million when his former business partner, a Chicago man and fellow vet, sold their military logistics company shortly after he left the enterprise he founded a decade ago, a federal judge said this week. -
Woman fined $100 for going topless files suit challenging city ordinance
A woman who was ticketed for indecent exposure this past summer at a “GoTopless Day” event in Chicago has asked a federal judge to throw out a city ordinance that bars women from exposing their bare breasts in public. -
AG update: Judge extends grace period voting in Lake County until 9
A judge has extended grace period voting in Lake County until 9 p.m., according to Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office. -
Judge denies Scottish artist's request to toss suit stemming from attempted sale of painting he claims isn't his
The painting at the crux of the suit
