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Apple drops bid to delete city of Chicago's 'Netflix tax' on streaming entertainment services
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 -
Judge puts lid on suit vs Costco claiming chocolate-dipped ice cream treats weren't really chocolate
A judge has melted a lawsuit, which claimed retailer Costco scammed consumers by selling chocolate coated ice cream bars that had little chocolate, saying plaintiff's own case showed there is indeed plenty of chocolate in the bars. -
Logistics broker Virnich says Liberty Mutual wrongly counting independent truckers to boost workers' comp premiums
West Chicago-based Virnich's lawsuit alleges Liberty Mutual is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars more in workers' compensation insurance premiums than Virnich should owe, because it doesn't directly employ truck drivers -
Brink's hit with class action over requiring armored truck drivers to scan fingerprints to unlock doors
Like so many other class actions brought under the Illinois biometrics privacy law, the lawsuit says Brink's must pay up for allegedly violating the law's notice and consent provisions -
Cook County primary voters pick nominees for 27 Cook County Circuit, subcircuit judge posts
Results are preliminary, pending final tallies posted by Cook County and Chicago election authorities -
Ogletree Deakins Recognized by Seramount as a “Best Law Firm for Women”
Ogletree Deakins Recognized by Seramount as a “Best Law Firm for Women”. -
Judge won't yet give appeals court chance to weigh in on class action over BNSF rail yard entry fingerprint scans
Judge Matthew Kennelly had refused to grant summary judgment to BNSF in the BIPA class action brought by a truck driver in 2019 -
Yarbrough: Time for feds oversight of Cook Clerk's office to end; Court monitors focusing on details to keep getting paid
Yarbrough says compliance administrators appointed by the court to ensure she obeys federal court decrees are trying to find reasons to keep those decrees in place to ensure they continue to get paid -
Appeals panel: Family can sue Abbott over birth defects from drug, despite seeming contradictory claims vs doctors
Couple now suing Abbott Laboratories already won $18.5M jury verdict against doctors who prescribed the anticonvulsant Depakote -
Class action: T-Mobile, Sprint owe money to customers of AT&T, Verizon because merger raised cell phone costs
The lawsuit asserted the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint violated antitrust laws and led only to higher prices for all telecom customers amid a less competitive marketplace. -
Judicial Inquiry Board moves ahead with complaints against three judges, including Cook County judges Raines, Ghouse
One Cook County judge accused of improperly besmirching attorneys, while another pleaded guilty to DUI -
Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Kanne dies; Served on federal appeals court for 35 years
Kanne, regarded as a conservative originalist, was appointed to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan -
Legal 500 U.S. 2022 Ranks Dykema Among Nation’s Best in Four Categories
Legal 500 U.S. 2022 Ranks Dykema Among Nation’s Best in Four Categories. -
Reformers' filing: Cook Clerk Yarbrough 'dragging feet' on complying with fed court's anti-patronage orders
Longtime Illinois government reform advocate Michael Shakman and others have asked a federal judge to tack at least another year onto federal oversight of hiring practices under Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough -
IL leaders ignored Caterpillar CEO's economic policy warnings; IL is paying the price
After decades at home in Illinois, Caterpillar is sending its headquarters to Texas, in search of a better climate for doing business -
Black, Latino queer couple can continue discrimination suit vs Liberty Mutual, but not class action, judge says
The Evanston couple cancelled their policy with Liberty Mutual, meaning they can't lead a class action against the insurer for injuries that cannot happen again, a federal judge ruled -
Judge finalizes almost $6M to settle class action over BioLife plasma donor fingerprint scans
Attorneys who challenged BioLife policy to get about 35% of total, or nearly $2.1 million -
Foley Ranks Among Nation’s Top Law Firms in Chambers USA 2022
Foley Ranks Among Nation’s Top Law Firms in Chambers USA 2022. -
Ex-secretary accuses University Park village manager, village officials of sex harassment
The former secretary to University Park's village manager asserts she was subjected to an "onslaught" of sexual harassment from the fall of 2019 to June 2021 -
Hyatt keeps up effort to make timeclock vendor Kronos pay for its biometrics class action settlement
The Hyatt hotel chain agreed in January to pay $1.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit over worker fingerprint scans. But the hotelier wants a judge to let it keep suing its timeclock supplier, who Hyatt says actually allegedly violated Illinois' biometrics privacy law