U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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Judge won't clip hairdressers' class action vs insurer Continental over denied COVID coverage claims
The judge said alterations the businesses made to their premises and operations in response to COVID-19 were sufficient to allow them to continue suing their insurer for denying their claims for coverage for business losses caused by state lockdown orders. -
Dems' IL district maps challenged; GOP leaders: 'Population estimates' result in unequal, discriminatory districts
The lawsuit filed in federal court says the maps pushed through by Illinois Democrats wrongly rely on survey estimates, not actual Census data. -
BNSF sues Cicero, says town's massive sewer increase, threats, imperil operations at major rail hub
Cicero is demanding BNSF pay $359K sewer bill under 'discriminatory' targeted new ordinance, or risk shutdown of 'major' interstate railyard. -
Group can continue lawsuit vs IL Elections Board for restricting voter registration data, frustrating audit of IL voter records
Judge says high likelihood the Illinois State Board of Elections violated federal election law by refusing to turn over state voter records to group seeking to audit the voter rolls for irregularities. -
Judge: Doesn't matter at this point if Cook County profited off foreclosure fees; Wells Fargo can't end county discrimination suit
Wells Fargo said Cook County can't sue because it profited off additional processing of loan defaults that Cook County has blamed on alleged discriminatory lending practices -
Cops, ex-prosecutor: Wrongful prosection suit must end, because Foxx merely dropped '94 rape, murder case vs two men
A group of Chicago cops and a former Cook County ASA say they were left to face lawsuits after State's Attorney Kim Foxx opted not to contest innocence claims from two who had confessed to a brutal 1994 rape and murder, despite her deputies' continued belief the two men were guilty. -
Judge curbs class action vs PlatePass over rental car tollway charges, sends case to arbitrator
Judge says even question of whether case should be in arbitration should go to an arbiter, under PlatePass user agreement. -
Appeals panel: SCOTUS has wrongly blocked people from suing debt collectors as Congress intended, asks court to revisit
Judges on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take another look at its prior decision in Spokeo, which they said specifically has improperly prevented people from suing debt collectors, as Congress had intended when it wrote the law -
Feds seeking plea deal with ex-Cook County debt collector, indicted for alleged bribes paid to former Cook Circuit Clerk Brown
In a recent filing, prosecutors indicated they had initiated plea deal talks with lawers for Penn Credit and its CEO Donald Donagher -
Appeals panel denies Northwestern law professor new trial after losing defamation lawsuit
Northwestern educator sued relatives in dispute over a $3 million inheritance -
Judge expels class action vs DePaul for nixing student refunds after COVID closed in-person classes last spring
A federal judge in Chicago says students can't argue that DePaul University's promotional materials, class catalogs and student handbooks established a contractual promise to continue in-person classes throughout the school year. -
CSX to pay $5.25M to settle truck driver's class action over fingerprint scans; Lawyers to get nearly $2M
A Cook County judge could sign off on the deal on May 13, approving payouts of "several hundred dollars" to more than 3,000 CSX truck drivers and others who accessed secure CSX railyards, but did not provide written authorization for fingerprint scans. -
Yarbrough sidesteps former county workers' lawsuit over hiring practices at Recorder's office
Judge: Complaint doesn't show salaries were linked to political support of current Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough -
Female sailor sues Shedd Aquarium for allegedly allowing sexist work environment aboard research vessel
The complaint asserts the sailor, who was the first and only female sailor to serve on the vessel, was subjected to a host of sexist and mysogynistic comments and a "gender-based double standard" aboard the Coral Reef II, which is operated by the Shedd Aquarium Society. -
Judge: Sheriff's office not on hook to pay woman shot by her ex-fiance, a Cook County correctional officer, in attempted murder-suicide
Former Cook County correctional officer Erika Aguirre had attempted to shoot to death her ex-fiance, Deisy Jaimes, as well as Jaimes' father, in an attempted murder-suicide. Jaimes' family claimed the county should pay because of a county policy they claimed required Aguirre to possess a gun. -
Chicago security firm can't end liability to Nike for guard knifed during fight with shoplifter at SW side store
A federal judge says the security company's contract with Nike may require the firm to cover any damages Nike is ordered to pay to security guard who was injured in a fight with a shoplifter at Nike's Chatham neighborhood store -
Judge yanks dentists' claims for insurance coverage for income lost to state COVID shutdowns
Virus exclusion in policy proves to be deciding factor in the COVID coverage dispute between Dental Experts practices and Massachusetts Bay Insurance. -
Melrose Park: Mayor Serpico should be excused from family's lawsuit accusing village of bogus citations, harassment
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. -
Nurse staffing firm Heartland to pay $5.4M to end biometrics class action over worker fingerprint scans
Settlement pool could include more than 10,000 employees, who could get $320 each -
'Threat to everybody:' Townstone says feds mean to make example of them to expand regulatory power over lenders
Townstone Financial President Barry Sturner said he intends to continue fighting a federal regulatory complaint he said appears intended to chill speech federal agents disapprove of, under the rubric of fighting discrimination.