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Former actor, convicted of attempting to extort celebs, can't sue media cos. over photos posted to social media
Vivek Shah had sued 10 media companies, claiming they violated his copyright by using photos posted to social media, picturing Shah and various celebrities, when reporting on the federal criminal case against Shah -
Appeals panel: Japanese billionaire owes law firm Bartlit Beck $54M in fees from $2.6B settlement
7th Circuit agrees Okada pulled himself from arbitration hearing, can't cry foul after the fact -
Neal Gerber Eisenberg Adds Partner Frank Paolini to Private Wealth Group
Neal Gerber Eisenberg Adds Partner Frank Paolini to Private Wealth Group. -
SCOTUS nixes Cook County appeal of decision that green lit taxpayer suit vs county over unfair propety tax assessments
County officials and a collection of school districts had argued letting the appellate court decision stand would open the floodgates to taxpayer lawsuits, potentially including class actions, in federal court. -
U.S. appeals panel tells judge he can't put hold on lawsuit vs Cook County over property tax assessments
A federal appeals court has told a judge to proceed with a taxpayer suit against Cook County, which claims the county unfairly assesses certain properties, saying the judge overstepped his bounds in halting the case, while the county asks the nation's high court to hear the matter. -
Activists ask court to relax ballot rules for their referendums to boost funding for mental health services on South, West sides
The Coalition to Save our Mental Health Centers says state and city COVID-19 activity restrictions make it too hard to satisfy the rules to place their referendums on the ballot -
Judge OKs class actions to continue vs Whitepages, Instant Checkmate accusing sites of using people's identities in ads
Sites selling background reports argued their work is protected as free speech or works of literature -
Appeals court refuses to reinstate $3M verdict for widow, who sued GSK over husband’s suicide
The woman's lawyers had claimed GSK never fully updated warning labels for its antidepressant Paxil to reflect true suicide risk. -
Appeals panel: IL property tax laws stymy property tax lawsuits, wrongly shield Cook County from answering for unequal assessments
A federal appeals panel has revived a lawsuit brought by a group of property owners against Cook County, as the judges say Illinois laws and tax appeal rules have created a system in which certain taxpayers can't get justice over unequal tax assessments. -
Judge: Housing groups can keep suing Deutsche Bank over foreclosure home repair discrimination
The collective action vs Deutsche Bank and others over its maintenance of bank-owned homes in minority neighborhoods has been give new life. -
IL appeals panel OKs $54M jury verdict in Indiana trucking accident, even though Indiana law applied
A three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court has upheld a massive verdict against a trucking company in relation to a 2011 Interstate 65 crash, saying a trial court properly allowed both Indiana and Illinois law to apply. -
GSK: Widow's request to restore $3M verdict in suicide suit would destabilize legal system
A drug company sued by the widow of a Chicago man, who killed himself after taking the generic form of the antidepressant Paxil, argues that the widow has launched a “frivolous," “topsy-turvy” and "unprecedented" effort to have a Chicago federal district judge override the U.S. Supreme Court and restore a $3 million verdict. -
Widow asks federal judge to reinstate $3M verdict vs GSK in suicide suit, despite SCOTUS appeal rejection
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent refusal to hear her case, the widow of a Chicago man, who killed himself after allegedly taking the generic form of the antidepressant Paxil, is trying to have a federal district judge restore her $3 million verdict against drugmaker GSK, because the company allegedly didn’t push federal regulators to revise the drug’s warning label. -
SCOTUS gives win to GSK in appeal of $3M verdict over Chicago lawyer's suicide, Paxil drug labeling
The widow of a lawyer who took his own life, allegedly after taking the generic equivalent of widely prescribed antidepressant drug, Paxil, will not get a chance to undo a federal appeals court’s decision to toss out a federal jury’s findings that GSK, the maker of Paxil, owes her $3 million because it allegedly didn’t push federal regulators hard enough to revise the drug’s warning label. -
SCOTUS decision could mean new hearing for widow's suit vs GSK over suicide of lawyer taking generic Paxil
A federal appeals court in Chicago could be tasked with taking another look at its previous decision undoing a jury verdict ordering drug maker GSK to pay $3 million to the widow of a Chicago lawyer who committed suicide after taking the generic equivalent of a widely prescribed antidepressant drug. -
Overcharged Cook County taxpayers can't sue county in federal court over inflated assessments
A federal judge said he isn’t allowed to take jurisdiction over a lawsuit in which Cook County property owners claimed their property tax bills were falsely inflated so other properties could be underassessed and pay less. -
SCOTUS weighs competing briefs in widow's appeal in case vs GSK over suicide of lawyer taking generic Paxil
The U.S. Supreme Court is tackling the question of whether drug companies can be sued for not making their warning labels strong enough, even though the FDA controls the labels. But whether a forthcoming Supreme Court decision will affect a decision denying a $3 million judgment to the widow of a Chicago lawyer who committed suicide after taking the generic equivalent of Paxil remains unclear. -
Widow asks SCOTUS to toss GSK's win in lawsuit over Paxil labeling, lawyer's suicide
Asserting a Chicago federal appeals panel wrongly invalidated a jury’s verdict, attorneys for the widow of a Chicago lawyer who committed suicide after taking the generic version of the antidepressant drug Paxil, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the appellate ruling and order more proceedings on whether pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline should be made to pay for allegedly not revising their drug’s warning label to reflect an increased risk of suicide. -
Judge: Housing groups must show more to back home repair discrimination claims vs Deutsche Bank, others
A federal judge has halted, for now, a lawsuit in which fair housing advocates accused Deutsche Bank of trying to lower property values in minority neighborhoods. -
Federal appeals court won’t review its decision to toss $3M verdict v. GSK; Plaintiff: ‘Dangerous precedent’
A Chicago federal appellate court has refused to reexamine its decision last month that reversed a $3 million verdict against drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, on grounds the company was not responsible for the labeling of the generic version of its product Paxil, despite plaintiff’s urging a rehearing was needed, because she said the appeals panel set a “dangerous precedent.”