A federal appeals panel handed Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart a stinging defeat, saying the county’s chief law enforcement officer had trampled the free speech rights of the owners of the country’s second-largest provider of online classified advertising space when he and his office moved to stem funding to and potentially put the site out of business over concerns the site was used to facilitate prostitution and sex trafficking.
Aspiring beauticians aren’t entitled to salaries from payments their educators collect from customers, a Chicago federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. issued an opinion Oct. 27 in a class action lawsuit from cosmetology students of Regency Beauty Institute who argued the work they did for paying customers classified them as employees.
A woman suing Abercrombie & Fitch over the retailer’s decision to void promotional gift cards after the cards’ expiration dates still has more work to do to prove the retailer did anything wrong, a federal judge said in denying the woman's request for summary judgment in her breach of contract class action against the retailer.
A federal judge has declined to slap an injunction on the efforts of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to pinch funding to the country’s second largest online classified advertising site, saying the sheriff’s efforts to date to persuade credit card companies to sever business ties with Backpage.com do not cross the line into making illegal threats, meaning Dart is within his constitutional rights and authority to continue advocating against what he sees as Backpage’s promotion of prostitution.
A federal judge has put a hold on any further actions Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart might take to pressure credit card companies to stop doing business with Backpage.com over concerns the nation’s second largest online classified advertising board is being used to promote prostitution and sex trafficking.
A Haitian-American practitioner of the Voodoo religion will not be allowed to continue to press his case for religious discrimination and harassment against his former employer, after a federal judge determined the harassment he suffered for a time at the hands of some of his coworkers did not entitle him to collect from an employer that moved relatively quickly to end the harassment, yet ultimately
A native Canadian tribe will need to continue to defend itself in Chicago's federal court against a breach of contract suit lodged by a Warrenville company over an allegedly broken business deal to bring wireless broadband Internet service to the tribe's islands near the Michigan-Ontario border.
