Families of victims of a fiery oil-fueled train derailment and explosion that claimed 47 lives in a town on the eastern edge of Canada’s Quebec Province will need to press their wrongful death claims in federal court, after lawyers for Canadian Pacific Railway and other corporate defendants asked to transfer cases from local to federal jurisdiction.
Kraft Foods' breach of contract lawsuit against a supplier lost steam this week when a federal judge in Chicago granted the defendant’s request to dismiss three of the four counts it faced. Northfield-based Kraft is suing SunOpta Ingredients, of Edina, Minn., which had sold Kraft a dried buttermilk product for more than 20 years until 2013, when Kraft allegedly learned SunOpta was no longer selling a pure buttermilk powder.
A dispute over the true birthplace of an Iowa whiskey brand could move to federal court, even as the truth about where that brand is actually produced has rye connoisseurs doing a spit-take.
The defendants in a downstate Illinois computer hacking case brought by attorneys with the now-dissolved Prenda Law firm assert “this case could be the poster child for abusive litigation.”
Empire Today, an iconic seller and installer of flooring and window treatments, has withdrawn a lawsuit against two of its executives it had accused of working with an insurer to defraud the company by diverting workers compensation insurance payments.
Empire Today, an iconic Chicago area seller and installer of flooring and window treatments, has filed suit against two of its former top executives, seeking $25 million in damages from the pair the company alleges ran a fraud scheme that diverted millions of dollars in workers compensation reimbursements from insurance companies to their personal accounts.
