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Freeborn Attorneys and Practices Earn High Marks in Chambers USA 2022 Rankings
Freeborn Attorneys and Practices Earn High Marks in Chambers USA 2022 Rankings. -
SCOTUS: Airline ramp workers exempt from arbitration mandates, more class actions vs transportation employers inbound?
The U.S. Supreme Court says Southwest Airlines ramp workers are involved in interstate commerce, and should be given exemption under federal law from mandatory arbitration clauses in their employment contracts -
Google Photos lawsuit administrators begin accepting claims for cut of $100M biometrics privacy class action settlement
Illinois residents have a chance to claim up to $400 each from a $100 million settlement to be paid by Google to end a class action settlement over face scans in its Google Photos app. Google was sued under Illinois' strict biometrics privacy law -
Federal judge approves class definitions in litigation over poultry price fixing allegations
Three groups will get to pursue claims against producers that haven't settled -
U.S. Attorney’s Office Provides Update on Federal Prosecutions and Ongoing Strategies To Combat Violent Crime in Chicago
U.S. Attorney’s Office Provides Update on Federal Prosecutions and Ongoing Strategies To Combat Violent Crime in Chicago. -
Judge: Illinois prejudgment lawsuit interest law unconstitutional
A Cook County judge said the law supported by Democratic state lawmakers and Gov. JB Pritzker illegally interferes with jury rights and authority, while improperly penalizing defendants, and gifting personal injury plaintiffs with special benefits not given to anyone else in Illinois -
Class action lawsuit accuses Wintrust Bank of racially discriminatory home loans
The complaint asserts Wintrust allegedly declines Black borrowers at higher rates than whites, and approves Black home buyers at terms more onerous than those offered to white borrowers -
How to Craft an Effective Work from Home Policy on May 26, 2022
How to Craft an Effective Work from Home Policy on May 26, 2022. -
Appeals panel agrees law firm can't tack $9.75M to client's legal bill for divorce
Fee enhancement provision on retainer agreement lacked specificity, is invalid -
Attorney General Raoul Urges Families to Be on the Lookout for Fraud Related to Baby Formula Shortage
Attorney General Raoul Urges Families to Be on the Lookout for Fraud Related to Baby Formula Shortage. -
Fear & Politics: Judges, lawyers reluctant to defend rights vs guv's, mayors' emergency power amid pandemic
Why have judges and lawyers - including those who bill themselves as defenders of civil liberties - largely deferred to the widespread use of emergency executive power by governors, mayors and others, throughout the Covid pandemic, despite constitutional questions? -
Fiduciary Compliance for Church Plans: What Fiduciaries Should Know and Be Doing Now! on May 24, 2022
Fiduciary Compliance for Church Plans: What Fiduciaries Should Know and Be Doing Now! on May 24, 2022. -
Appeals court: Pritzker 2020 biz closure orders, alone, not enough to allow biz owners to sue for illegal takings
The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected yet another challenge to Pritzker's long-running use of emergency executive powers amid the Covid pandemic, saying plaintiffs didn't provide enough to back their sprawling claims that Pritzker trampled their rights -
SmithAmundsen Welcomes Attorney Jon Fortin to Transportation & Logistics Service Group
SmithAmundsen Welcomes Attorney Jon Fortin to Transportation & Logistics Service Group. -
Appeals panel grants cyclist another chance to continue lawsuit vs City Hall over injuries caused by Chicago pothole
Pothole's proximity to Divvy station gives injured cyclist a chance to press claim of city negligence -
Judge puts brakes on $110M jury award in legal fight between tire manufacturers Toyo, Atturo; Toyo to appeal
A Chicago federal judge preserved $10 million in compensatory damages for company that said it lost business following competitors' disparaging remarks -
Flossmoor School District: Schools don't need to respect IL health law when ordering kids exposed to Covid to stay home
A lawsuit asserted Flossmoor District 161 violated a family's due process rights when it ordered a fourth grader to stay home because she had been exposed to Covid -
Judge: U of Chicago Medical Center didn't act as state agent when it reported parents to DCFS for refusing shots for newborns
A judge has removed University of Chicago Medical Center from a civil rights suit filed by parents, who alleged the hospital turned them in to state child neglect investigators for refusing legally required shots for their newborns, finding the hospital did so on its own, without authority. -
Peter M. Ellis of Reed Smith named a ‘Midwest Trailblazer’ by National Law Journal
Peter M. Ellis of Reed Smith named a ‘Midwest Trailblazer’ by National Law Journal. -
IL appeals panel: Chicago could still be on hook for $100s of millions in alleged illegal ordinance violation fines
State appellate judges have taken the boot off a class action alleging the city skirted a state law capping municipal ordinance fines at $250 each, costing hundreds of thousands of people hundreds of millions of dollars