A federal judge denied Tubi's attempt to use an arbitration clause in its user agreement and other legal arguments to quickly defeat a class action lawsuit accusing the streaming service of violating a federal video privacy law
A federal judge said he needed more time and another hearing to determine if a group of Republicans should be allowed to continue suing the state over a law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted 14 days after Election Day
The judge recognized Democrats' election efforts could be strained, should he rule that mail-in ballots can't be counted if they are received after Election Day. But the judge said that's not enough to let them join the court fight
Illinois' rate-approval process means plaintiffs can't establish legal injury under federal racketeering laws, despite ComEd's big estimated profits from the alleged bribes allegedly doled out to indicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan.
A group of Republicans have sued the state, saying a state law requiring mail-in votes to be counted up to 14 days after Election Day, conflicts with federal law.
A group of four federal appeals court judges says the Seventh Circuit was wrong to toss out a woman's class action claims that a creditor should pay for inflicting "emotional distress" when it sought to collect a "zombie debt"
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission violated a confidentiality provision in its settlement with Kraft and Mondelez to end a regulatory action over alleged wheat market manipulation, to score political PR points. The agency says its commissioners aren't bound by any such deals
Lawyers say sum is by far the largest ever reached under California Invasion of Privacy Act. Myron M. Cherry & Associates to get $16M from the deal
A Cook County judge ruled courts can't make ComEd repay potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in allegedly ill-gotten electricity rate increases, because to do so would require the courts to unconstitutionally question how Illinois state lawmakers approved the laws authorizing the higher rates
A federal judge says the plaintiffs can't show Madigan exerted "improper" influence on state lawmakers to pass new state laws beneficial to ComEd, so their racketeering case over ComEd's alleged bribes can't continue.
Six Flags Great America members and pass holders who visited the park from 2013-2018 could be in line for cash payments of $60-$200. Lawyers could get $12 million.
The legal team leading the class actions vs ComEd over the bribery scheme involving former House Speaker Michael Madigan are asking the judge to short out the utility's efforts to dismiss their lawsuits.
The settlement will provide $375 each to 40,000 class members, and $8.75 million to three law firms that led the lawsuits under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Facial scanning tech firm Clearview says it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to unravel a thorny tangle of clashing decisions on which courts have jurisdiction over class actions brought under Illinois' biometrics privacy law. And big money could ride on the answer.
ComEd is telling a judge he should pull the plug on multimillion-dollar class action suits, which allege ComEd bribed state Democratic figures to jack up electric rates, because the rates were authorized by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
The class action lawsuit accused Clearview AI of failing to abide by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act when it scraped photos posted online. The plaintiffs intentionally manipulated their claims to keep their lawsuit in Cook County court, where they do not need to claim any actual injuries from Clearview's actions to sue the company under state law.
Bankruptcy judges can't force the city of Chicago to return vehicles impounded because their owners failed to pay parking tickets or other fees, the Supreme Court said, even though the city's policy doesn't line up with the "spirit" of the law.
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