Saying the cases are only “technically related" and would bog each other down, a Chicago federal judge has tossed a $25 millioncountersuit for defamation brought against the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, a documentary filmmaker and other defendants, by a private investigator, who is one of the defendants facing a $40 million malicious prosecution lawsuit from a man, cleared of double murder charges, who claims the P.I. and a Northwestern University journalism professor coerced him into
The longstanding dispute between a religious addiction recuperation group, Affordable Recovery Housing, and the suburban city of Blue Island isn't over yet, as attorneys for the suburban Chicago recovery home plan to seek another day in court.
A longstanding dispute between a religious addiction recovery group and the city of Blue Island ended last week in federal court in Chicago, after a judge said the suburban city did not violate the group’s rights by seeking to force it to install fire sprinklers in its buildings.
An app operator won’t have to face a class action lawsuit after a federal judge in Chicago determined the company’s in-game casino does not break any laws.
Despite a federal appeals court's recent ruling that restaurants aren’t necessarily breaking federal labor law by requiring tipped servers to perform tasks other than waiting tables, a Chicago federal judge has decided to allow servers at several suburban Buffalo Wild Wings franchise locations to sue their employers for that same reason.
A man whose conviction on double murder charges was vacated after it was revealed a Northwestern University journalism professor and the investigator with whom he worked had allegedly falsified evidence implicating him in the killings has won the chance to continue with his lawsuit against the university and the people he alleged wrongly put him behind bars to boost their own prestige and careers.
An African-American man who said he was subjected to repeated and regular racial epithets and sexual harassment, including groping of his genitals, by Latino coworkers at a grocery store on Chicago’s far South Side won a federal jury verdict against his former employers for more than $2.4 million. On Dec. 15, jurors in Chicago federal court handed down the verdict, ordering defendant Rosebud Farmstand to pay plaintiff Robert Smith damages.
A Chicago federal judge has refused to halt arbitration proceedings brought by investment firm UBS Financial Services against a former clerk, whom UBS has alleged helped steal company information with which to lure away customers. Alexander Freund worked as a part-time clerk for UBS in Chicago from Nov. 7, 2011, to Feb. 15, 2012, when he left to work for Wells Fargo.
A federal lawsuit brought in Chicago by residents of states on the U.S.’s West Coast against an insurance telemarketer will be allowed move forward, but without the telemarketer’s sister company, which a judge said doesn’t do enough business in Illinois to make Chicago’s courtrooms the appropriate place for the legal actions against them.
An Oak Forest woman hopes to bring a class action against a dating club she said improperly managed her account and refused to cancel her membership. On Aug. 26, Judy Radusewicz filed suit against Events & Adventures, a dating service operated by Adventures Northwest, a corporation based in Washington state. She had purchased a membership with the Chicago branch of the club in April.
In Chicago’s federal court, it’s Dial L for Lawsuit, as a Mississippi woman has brought a class-action complaint against a multi-state personal finance company for allegedly violating federal law by making hundreds of thousands of unsolicited, automated telephone calls. Shirley Williams filed the suit July 22 against First Tower Loan LLC on behalf of herself and a class including others similarly situated, alleging the company violated the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
A Chicago federal judge has dismissed two of five counts contained in a class action complaint alleging a bail and bond payment processing company broke Illinois law by not refunding an 8 percent fee to a Watseka man, who had posted bail for traffic charges that were eventually dropped.
Three men wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for more than a decade for the brutal rape and murder of a Chicago woman have received permission from a federal judge, in light of a recent federal appellate decision, to renew their claim that police and prosecutors violated their constitutional rights by fabricating evidence to falsely link them to the crime.
Chicago's federal court has sided with a school district that suspended a teacher for four days without pay for bringing a box cutter and pocket knife into his classroom.
