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Samsung: Prominent plainfiffs' firm Labaton Sucharow seeking to press 'frivolous' biometrics claims in 'mass arbitration'
Samsung says the Labaton lawyers have 'weaponized' the arbitration process to extract a large, quick, potentially undue settlement. Labaton says Samsung is throwing a 'tantrum' to sidestep potentially massive liability for allegedly violating the Illinois biometrics privacy law -
Judge won't dismiss class action lawsuit accusing elite colleges, universities of financial aid collusion
Plaintiffs claims tuition would've been cheaper but for an agreement among some of America's top colleges and universities, including University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Brown, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Duke, among others. -
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 -
Lawsuit settlement: IL Secy of State agrees to stop dragging feet on voter registration law
The Illinois Secretary of State's Office has agreed to make voter registration easier for non-English speakers, as a result of a lawsuit brought by Chicago-based political reform groups. -
Fifth Third Bank, executives win end of investor class action, for now, over unauthorized accounts
Judge says complaint doesn't show bank leaders knew all the details of federal investigation when addressing shareholders -
Fifth Third says judge needs to dismiss class action 'piggybacking' on CFPB action
Complaint based on allegations of employees starting customer accounts without permission -
Appeals court: CBOT didn't break antitrust law by challenging firm's stab at electronic trading in 2004
A Chicago federal appeals panel has ruled the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange did not breach antitrust law 16 years ago, by allegedly trying to improperly scuttle a trading firm's electronic trading platform with a flood of regulatory objections. -
Federal judge will allow consumer fraud claim to continue vs Pfizer over Robitussin labeling
A federal judge has again rejected pharmaceutical maker Pfizer’s request to end a potential consumer fraud class action over the labeling of its Robitussin Maximum Strength cough and cold medicine. -
Judge OKs final deal to end class action vs Sears over flammable mowers; Lawyers get $2.75 million
A federal judge has approved settlement terms in a class action lawsuit looking to hold Sears liable for accusations some of its Craftsman riding lawnmowers caught fire as a result of faulty fuel systems. According to the settlement, Sears could pay out about $1 million to cover customer repairs, while paying the attorneys who prosecuted the case $2.75 million. -
FREEBORN & PETERS: Freeborn Elects Joseph L. Fogel as Co-Managing Partner
Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has elected Joseph L. Fogel as its new Co-Managing Partner, effective. -
Judge: Difference between 'mass action,' 'class action' means Pfizer can't flush Robitussin suit
A federal judge has rejected Pfizer’s attempt to scuttle a class action accusing the drugmaker of misleading consumers over the actual strength of its maximum strength Robitussin cough syrup, saying a U.S. Supreme Court decision doesn’t necessarily mean the company shouldn’t have to face a nationwide class action in Chicago federal court. -
Sears reaches deal to end class action over flammable Craftsman mowers; Lawyers could get $3.2M
A federal judge has signed off on a preliminary deal to settle a class action lawsuit against Sears, which had leveled accusations that some of its Craftsman riding lawnmowers caught fire as a result of faulty fuel systems. -
Latest 7th Circuit nominees Scudder, St. Eve, seen as well-qualified, experienced by many legal observers
Legal observers have praised President Donald Trump’s two most-recent nominees to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, singling out their experience and intelligence as well as the White House’s efforts to gain bipartisan support for the nominees. -
Judge pauses Chicago opioid lawsuit; judges mull consolidating host of similar cases nationally
A federal judge has placed on hold the city of Chicago’s lawsuit accusing the makers of prescription painkillers like Oxycontin and Percocet – so-called “opioids” – of falsely marketing their drugs to doctors. defrauding City Hall and other employee health plan administrators, while giving time for a panel of federal judges to decide if the action should be consolidated with other similar lawsuits, brought by cities and others, now pending in other jurisdictions. -
Judge balks at big poultry producers' attempt to crack chicken price fixing antitrust class action
A federal judge will allow one of the country’s leading food service distributors and a group of others balking at the high price of chicken to continue to peck away at a federal antitrust action accusing the country’s largest poultry producers of fixing prices for their birds. -
IL high court deadlocks on whether title companies' attorney payments are kickbacks
A divided Illinois Supreme Court has let stand a lower court’s decision to allow lawyers to earn fees – even fees that appear overly large, compared to the amount of work being done – from real estate title companies, despite accusations that the fee-splitting arrangements amount to little more than a kickback scheme. -
Appeals court: Chicago can't slap hotel tax on booking fees charged by Expedia, other travel sites
The city of Chicago will not be able to collect $29 million it believed it was owed by Expedia and other online travel booking sites, after a state appeals court ruled the city’s hotel taxes can’t be applied to the fees charged by the booking services. -
Hotwire, Hotels.com, other online travel sites to pay Lombard $459K to settle hotel taxes lawsuit
The village of Lombard will reap a $459,000 payday from the operators of six of the biggest online travel websites – the only Illinois municipality allowed to do so - after a federal judge signed off on a deal to end a years-long court fight over claims the travel sites had stiffed Lombard and other suburban Chicago communities of hotel taxes. -
Chicago given third try at pressing opioid deception fraud suit vs drugmakers
A Chicago federal judge is giving City Hall a third try to refine its opioid fraud lawsuit vs drugmakers. -
People who sued Peet's for pouring too little French press coffee confidentially settle
A group of people who sued Peet’s Coffee & Tea for allegedly shorting them the amount French press coffee they believed they were owed for their money, have settled their lawsuits, surrendering their opportunity to pursue the cases as class actions.