U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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Lawsuit: McDonald's website, mobile app not accessible to the blind, violates ADA
A blind man has sued McDonald’s, claiming the fast food giant has discriminated against him under federal disabilities law because it has not made its smartphone app or website accessible to those with visual impairments. -
Surrogacy company sues competitor for allegedly violating trademark case settlement
A surrogacy company is suing Conceiveabilities Inc., and Nazca Fontes, owner, citing alleged unfair competition for violating the terms of a trademark case settled late last year. -
River Valley Capital says Mount Prospect business defaulted on six-figure vehicle lease
An Iowa corporation is suing A & A Global Inc., and Shamil Semenov, its owner, citing alleged breach of contract for failing to pay a lease. -
Von Technologies failed to pay network engineers overtime wages, class action claims
An IT professional has filed a class action lawsuit against Von Technologies LLC, a network services company, citing alleged unpaid wages and violation of Workers' Compensation acts. -
'Serial objector' lawyer Bandas says owed cut of $56M TCPA deal because helped trim other lawyers' fees
A Texas lawyer embroiled in a racketeering action accusing him and others of being “serial objectors” out to simply claim a chunk of others’ negotiated class action settlements has inserted himself into another massive class action deal, asking a federal judge to award him money for representing an organization whose objection to the attorney fee request in a $56 million deal to end a class action against a cruise line, phone poll operator and timeshare company, helped reduce other attorneys’ multi-million dollar payday. -
Fraud action: OKCupid sets users up with premium access premise, stiffs them on 'viable dating options'
A man who paid premiums to access A-list dating prospects, only to find out most were dead ends, is suing the company behind OkCupid in a $5 million class action complaint, accusing the company of setting him and other users up to get stiffed. -
Parent: Oak Brook school district owes $50M for accusing sons of cheating in geography bee
A DuPage County surgeon who says his sons were falsely accused of cheating in a geography bee is suing their Oak Brook school district in federal court for $50 million. -
Woman claims she was harassed, discriminated against while working for University Park, then fired
A former HR manager is suing Village of University Park Illinois, citing alleged discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination. -
Phillip Metals defaulted on six-figure invoice for sales and marketing work, lawsuit says
A Chinese corporation is suing Phillip Metals Inc., citing alleged breach of contract for failing to pay for sales and marketing services. -
Jury: GSK liable for suicide of lawyer taking generic Paxil; $3M awarded to widow
A federal jury in Chicago has ordered pharmaceutical maker GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 million to the widow of a Chicago lawyer who committed suicide by jumping in front of a train after taking a generic version of Paxil, an antidepressant developed by GSK, finding the drugmaker should be held responsible for his death, even though it didn’t make the actual medication the lawyer had been taking for about a week before he took his life. -
Lawsuit: Bose headphone app secretly collects customer listening habits, data then sold by Bose
An Illinois man is pursuing a class action complaint worth at least $5 million against Bose Corp., accusing the maker of high-end wireless headphones, speakers and other audio equipment of selling customer data secretly collected by an app paired with the headphones and other consumer gear. -
Federal judge says clock ran out on part of a franchisee's racial discrimination suit vs Checkers
A federal judge has put half of a restaurateur’s racial discrimination claim against Checkers Drive-In on the back burner, saying the statute of limitations had run out on his lawsuit. -
Jury: Trucking companies not to blame for drinking water contamination in Sauk Village
A federal jury has ruled two trucking companies are not liable for drinking water contamination in suburban Sauk Village, granting a win to their firms in their court battle with the village, which had contended the trucking companies spilled cancer-causing chemicals into the groundwater the village pumps from its wells into the homes and businesses connected to its water system. -
Judge: Newly listed endangered bumblebee could stop Kane County Fox River bridge project
A Chicago federal judge has thrown the brakes on a plan to construct a new bridge over the Fox River in northwest suburban Kane County, saying the plan could harm a kind of bumblebee placed last month on the Endangered Species List. -
Judge tosses man's suit vs Equifax for dinging his credit over misreported late child support payments
A Chicago federal judge has dismissed an Illinois man's lawsuit against Equifax alleging the credit reporting giant misreported his child support payments as delinquent because Texas state officials had been wrongly deducting too much from certain paychecks. -
Suit says Glenview-based SoyNut Butter Company sold food contaminated with E. coli
A California couple is suing The SoyNut Butter Company and three unnamed individuals with the company, citing alleged negligence and product liability for selling products linked to a recent E. coli outbreak. -
Former Camping World employee says company didn't pay enough OT
A former employee has filed a class action lawsuit against Camping World Inc., citing alleged unpaid wages and violation of Workers' Compensation acts. -
Judge: 'Ride time' to worksites should be counted in OT calculations, even if workers not working
A Chicago federal judge has determined employers can be forced under the law to pay workers overtime for certain “ride time” spent traveling to a worksite, agreeing with a group of workers for a party tent and equipment rental company who argued their employer could have been required to pay them overtime under federal and Illinois wage laws. -
Employees claim Marathon Systems neglected to pay overtime
Two individuals are suing Marathon Systems Inc. and Richard L. Mock, the owner of the cleaning service, citing alleged unpaid wages, violation of applicable minimum wage law and violation of Workers' Compensation acts for inadequate overtime and other claims. -
Man claims TransUnion reported incorrectly on debt despite his dispute
An individual is suing TransUnion Corp., a credit reporting agency, citing alleged breach of duty and violation of federal law for misrepresenting his debt.