A state appeals panel has ruled the company hired to run Navy Pier is shielded from worker class actions by the same exemption that applies to state and local government employers under Illinois' biometrics privacy law
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled the CTA doesn't owe money to family of man killed by subway train, because he was trespassing and should have known trains posed danger.
An appeals panel has ruled attorneys Cogan and Power, the former partners of McNabola Law Group in Chicago, didn't improperly steal away McNabola clients and employees when they started their own firm
'They are seeking the return of money that they contend was unlawfully taken,' appellate justices said of the class action claims against the city of Chicago they said were wrongly tossed by a Cook County judge
The Illinois First District Appellate Court said the Chicago Transit Authority wasn't wrong to terminate pension benefits to a lawyer who was attempting to amass a combined pension payout of more than $105,000 per year by essentially double-counting 20 years of service at the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to boost his CTA pension
An appeals court has confirmed NorthShore University HealthSystem did not have to bill Medicare for an accident victim's medical tab, before putting a lien on a third-party's insurance company.
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
Parties settled at $6 million to end the lawsuit that dates back to a 1998 attack on the hockey coach by a stepson of one of the hockey club board members. But a Cook County judge and an Illinois appeals panel ruled policy limits must stay in place, limiting the insurance company's payout
The state's high court has allowed an appeal from a worker at Roosevelt University, who is seeking to lead a class action lawsuit against his employer under Illinois' biometrics privacy law, but was blocked when a state appeals court said his union CBA meant he couldn't sue
The court determined the Illinois State Board of Elections improperly removed Republicans Susan Hutchinson and Mark Curran, and Democrat Nancy Rodkin Rotering, from the ballot by incorrectly calculating petition signature requirements under the law
The family of a man killed in a traffic crash will receive $16 million, spread out over the next half century, from an Illinois trucking company, with the family's attorneys collecting $8 million.
The highest court in Illinois has ruled Cook County was wrong to refuse to continue disability benefits to a terminated employee with a nervous system disease, saying termination does not trigger a halt to such benefits.
Two different Illinois state appellate court panels rejected attempts by the owners of hotels and restaurants, who were hammered by the government response to the Covid pandemic, to force Zurich American Insurance to cover their losses
A state appeals panel agreed that a Cook County judge got the case right, in dismissing the lawsuit brought by the former chief operating officer of 3Red Group against his former attorneys from the Patterson Law Firm
