Steven C. Seeger

SCOTUS: Airline ramp workers exempt from arbitration mandates, more class actions vs transportation employers inbound?

By Jonathan Bilyk | Monday, Jun 6, 2022 @ 7:08pm

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
Judge shuts off Cicero's bid to flush BNSF claims $1M yearly sewer bill hike broke federal law protecting railroads

By Jonathan Bilyk | Tuesday, Mar 22, 2022 @ 4:32pm

BNSF said the town of Cicero's efforts in 2021 to force the railroad to pay $1 million more in sewer bills amounted to an illegal effort to force BNSF to help the town close a budget hole, and violated federal laws prohibiting local taxes on interstate railroads
Melrose Park: Mayor Serpico should be excused from family's lawsuit accusing village of bogus citations, harassment

By Dan Churney | Monday, May 3, 2021 @ 8:32pm

Melrose Park says Mayor Ron Serpico can't be sued by the family for the alleged harassment campaign, despite Serpico's viral video vulgar verbal badgering of one member of the family, because the village claims the mayor doesn't have the power to enact the ordinances the village says the family violated.