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Chicago City Hall cleared to continue pursuing lawsuit seeking $300K+ fines vs vape sellers
City alleged companies broke city rules on marketing to minors and liquid tobacco ban -
Reformers' filing: Cook Clerk Yarbrough 'dragging feet' on complying with fed court's anti-patronage orders
Longtime Illinois government reform advocate Michael Shakman and others have asked a federal judge to tack at least another year onto federal oversight of hiring practices under Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough -
How 'concrete' an injury is 'emotional distress?' Federal appeals court grapples with question
A group of four federal appeals court judges says the Seventh Circuit was wrong to toss out a woman's class action claims that a creditor should pay for inflicting "emotional distress" when it sought to collect a "zombie debt" -
Lawsuit vs Skokie school district asks court to order IL school officials to enforce anti-racism policies, programs
A federal judge has returned the lawsuit vs Skokie Fairview District 72 to Cook County court, where it has been amended to include allegations and demands against Illinois' state school superintendent -
Judge said truck driver's handprint scan class action vs Union Pacific must stay in federal court
Plaintiff sought to return part of his class action claim to Cook County Circuit Court, considered by many to be a venue more friendly to plaintiffs and an easier court in which to press claims under Illinois' biometrics privacy law -
Bank of America wants Cook County to pay bank's legal bill for fighting 'far-fetched' home loan discrimination suit
Bank of America has asked a judge to order Cook County to pick up the bank's tab for fighting the county's "far-fetched" discrimination lawsuit, which alleged the lender made discriminatory loans to minorities. -
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 -
Class action: Instant Pot makers didn't tell consumers cooker lids can open while under pressure, burn users
A nationwide class action is seeking to compel the makers of the Instant Pot line of electric cookers to pay for allegedly failing to tell consumers about an alleged defect in the product that could cause users to get severely burned -
Cozen O’Connor attorneys author chapters in 'Business Bankruptcy Practice' handbook
Chicago attorneys David Doyle, Allen Guon and Peter Roberts, all members of Cozen O’Connor’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Practice, have each authored a chapter in the 2022 edition of "Business Bankruptcy Practice." -
Patrick A. Salvi II to Be Installed as President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Patrick A. Salvi II to Be Installed as President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. -
Google Photos lawsuit administrators begin accepting claims for cut of $100M biometrics privacy class action settlement
Illinois residents have a chance to claim up to $400 each from a $100 million settlement to be paid by Google to end a class action settlement over face scans in its Google Photos app. Google was sued under Illinois' strict biometrics privacy law -
Lawsuit: Illinois illegally counts mail-in votes for federal office up to 2 weeks after Election Day
Three Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Michael Bost, have sued the state of Illinois, arguing federal law sets the date of Election Day, and Illinois' vote-by-mail illegally extends Election Day by 14 days -
Class action lawsuit accuses Wintrust Bank of racially discriminatory home loans
The complaint asserts Wintrust allegedly declines Black borrowers at higher rates than whites, and approves Black home buyers at terms more onerous than those offered to white borrowers -
Judge: Ice cream need only taste like vanilla, not have actual vanilla beans, to defeat deceptive marketing class action
A federal judge dismissed a class action against Prairie Farms, claiming the dairy misled consumers by selling "Premium Vanilla Ice Cream" with vanillin flavoring, rather than real vanilla -
Appeals court: Pritzker 2020 biz closure orders, alone, not enough to allow biz owners to sue for illegal takings
The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected yet another challenge to Pritzker's long-running use of emergency executive powers amid the Covid pandemic, saying plaintiffs didn't provide enough to back their sprawling claims that Pritzker trampled their rights -
'Astronomical damages:' IL high court ponders how many fingerprints should be worth up to $5K each under IL biometrics law
With potentially billions of dollars on the line, justices on the state high court must answer the question of how many repeated scans of fingerprints and other biometric data should cost Illinois employers $1,000-$5,000 each under the state's stringent Biometric Information Privacy Act -
Class action seeks big payout from SnapChat app parent over Lenses facial recognition tech
Snap Inc. could be on the hook for potentially more than $2 billion in damages under the lawsuit, which says SnapChat Lenses improperly scans users' faces without consent or notice under Illinois' biometrics privacy law -
Walgreens says insurers wrongly reneged on duties to cover legal costs, $1B+ damages in opioid lawsuits
Walgreens, the nation's second largest retail pharmacist, has sued more than two dozen insurance companies, asking a court to order them to cover Walgreens' costs related to 2,500 lawsuits pending against the retailer over the opioid crisis -
Judge: U of Chicago Medical Center didn't act as state agent when it reported parents to DCFS for refusing shots for newborns
A judge has removed University of Chicago Medical Center from a civil rights suit filed by parents, who alleged the hospital turned them in to state child neglect investigators for refusing legally required shots for their newborns, finding the hospital did so on its own, without authority. -
Thomas D. Jackson Named to The 2022 National Black Lawyers Association’s “Top 40 Under 40”
Thomas D. Jackson Named to The 2022 National Black Lawyers Association’s “Top 40 Under 40”.