A class action lawsuit accuses Northwestern University of a breach of contract with its Jewish students by allowing a pro-Hamas rife with antisemitic bigotry to continue on the campus' central lawn, allegedly in violation of university policies
The class action lawsuit, filed by a wheelchair user and a man with limited mobility who uses a motorized scooter, accuses the Chicago White Sox of not allowing people to select and purchase accessible seats online as easily as the team does for standard tickets
Chicago lawyer David C. Wise is alleging his estranged law partner, Francis P. Morrissey, wrongly sued Wise for allegedly hiding a $5M fee from him, to cover up that Morrissey's allegedly "poor work ethic" and alcohol-related indiscretions make him 'not fit' to stay in the firm
The complaint alleges David Wise, one of the name partners in the personal injury law firm of Wise Morrisey, conspired with another lawyer to cut Wise's partner, Francis Morrissey, out of the settlement. Wise and the other lawyer deny the allegations.
A Cook County judge ordered majority partners in two investment partnerships to pay $87 million, including $15 million in legal fees. The partners have argued the judgment amounts to little more than a fee award to the law firm of Edward T. Joyce & Associates.
A Chicago federal appeals court has ruled France, not the U.S., is the place for the descendants of French Jews to sue the French National Railroad for taking Jews to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
A court fight that started in April over who can use the "Park Ridge Falcons" youth football team name has now produced accusations that league administrators misused $52K in donations.
Nonprofit disability access advocacy group Access Living and one of its staff members couldn't prove they were directly discriminated against to continue their class action vs the ride-hailing service under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned an appellate ruling that allowed Chicago and Skokie to press a suit against two Illinois communities and several consulting companies for allegedly rooking them out of "use tax" revenue, saying the Illinois Department of Revenue alone has jurisdiction over the taxes, not the courts or any municipality.
A federal judge will allow plaintiffs with disabilities who use motorized wheelchairs to continue their ADA access lawsuit against Uber, saying he believed Uber coud be treated as a public accommodation under the Amercians with Disabilities Act.
A Chicago federal judge has kicked to the curb a suit by a former busing contracts manager for Chicago Public Schools, who alleged bus companies and school officials defrauded Medicaid in connection with transportation of special needs students.
A shareholder of a Cook County business alleges she was shut off from access to the company's records after she allegedly discovered evidence of corporate waste.
A state appeals panel said more courtroom time is needed to determine how to divide ownership of a Chicago area car dealership following the death of its well-known, namesake owner.
An organization which advocates for the rights of people with disabilities has sued Uber, asking a federal judge to order the popular ridesharing service to provide equivalent levels of service to those with non-folding motorized wheelchairs as it does for people without such mobility disabilities.
The city of Chicago has the constitutional authority to require developers of new condo and apartment buildings to designate a portion of the project as “affordable housing,” a federal judge has said - and developers should enter into a new project understanding the rule could apply to them, despite efforts to avoid it.
An art foundation has lost again in its bid to hold responsible a law firm it blames for a $6.9 million loss, after a state appeals court said the foundation waited too long to sue its former lawyers over alleged missteps the lawyers committed while representing the foundation in a River North land deal.
Noting that whistleblower laws exist specifically to protect whistleblowers from legal actions in retaliation for blowing the whistle on wrongdoing, a federal judge has tossed a lawsuit brought by heart monitoring company, Lifewatch, against one of its former employees, who the company attempted to argue broke federal privacy laws when he handed over documents containing patient information to the federal government to support his accusations that LifeWatch had defrauded Medicare.
A Chicago-based home builder and the local trade association which represents the company and others like it has sued the city of Chicago, alleging the city’s so-called affordable housing ordinance amounts to an unconstitutional seizure of property by City Hall.
