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Federal judge toasts suburban restaurant owner's lawsuit claiming vodka manufacturer falsely marketed product as handmade
A suburban restaurant owner's class-action suit against a Texas distillery has dried up, after a Chicago federal judge found there were no grounds to allege the distillery falsely advertised its vodka as handcrafted. Mario Aliano, owner of Batavia-based restaurant business, Due Fratelli Inc., had filed a class action suit in October 2014 in Cook County Circuit Court against Fifth Generation Inc., which makes Tito’s Handmade Vodka. -
Zurich: Yellow Cab should defend itself vs taxi drivers' independent contractor lawsuit
While a federal appeals court ponders a lawsuit alleging taxi drivers should actually be considered employees and not independent contractors, an insurance company has asked a Cook County judge to declare one of the cab companies being sued should need to find some means other than an insurance claim to fund its defense against the allegations it has violated federal labor law in how it classifies and pays its drivers. -
Intellect Wireless, lawyers ordered to pay HTC $4 million over patent suit tossed for 'inequitable conduct'
A Chicago federal judge has ordered Intellect Wireless and its former lawyers to pay more than $4 million in legal costs and interest to HTC, a wireless phone maker, in the aftermath to Intellect’s loss in court over its claims HTC had infringed its patents. The judge found Intellect’s former attorneys, Raymond Niro, Paul Gibbons, David Mahalek and Paul Vickrey, jointly liable. -
Judge rejects Jewel’s attempt to end Michael Jordan’s suit over use of identity in commemorative ad
Judge says Jordan has demonstrated 'concrete injury' caused by Jewel's use of his shoes, No. 23 in ad -
Judge rejects Jewel's attempt to end Michael Jordan's suit over use of identity in commemorative ad
Michael Jordan has won permission from a federal judge to move ahead with his lawsuit against supermarket chain Jewel Food Stores over what he alleges is unauthorized use of his identity in an ad the chain ran congratulating him on his Hall of Fame induction in 2009. -
Judge rejects Michael Jordan's request for summary judgment in suit over Jewel ad; trial set for Dec. 8
A Chicago area supermarket chain may have violated the law in using a pair of basketball shoes with Michael Jordan’s number on them in a 2009 magazine ad congratulating him on his induction into the Hall of Fame. -
Updated: Judge gives Prenda, Duffy until Feb. 19 to pay sanction, file financial info in defamation case
Editor's note: This story was updated Friday to reflect an order that was filed after the publication of the story about Thursday's hearing. -
Seventh Circuit says despite concerns, lawsuits seeking billions over Holocaust must be heard in Hungary before U.S.
While acknowledging the difficulties descendants of those who died in the Holocaust might experience in asking their ancestral homeland to redress the myriad wrongs visited upon its Jewish population, a federal appeals court late last week ruled that Hungary, at least for now, is where those Holocaust survivors should press their claims against the central European nation’s central bank and national -
Seventh Circuit: Judge was wrong to not sanction Hinsdale trial lawyer
A federal appeals panel has overturned a judge's decision to not sanction a Hinsdale lawyer for failing to disclose her client's bankruptcy petition, saying federal rule mandates it and her conduct is unlikely to change without it. -
Seventh Circuit lets City of Chicago off the hook for paying attorney's fee award against cop
TinderThe City of Chicago does not have to pay an attorney's fee award for a police officer who was sued by a man allegedly injured while detained in handcuffed, a federal appeals panel held this month.The ruling reverses U.S. District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo's determination that the city was liable for the fees awarded against its officer under the Illinois Local Governmental and Governmental Employees
