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Judge flushes plumber's harassment suit alleging Elk Grove building officials conspired against him
A plumber's harassment suit against Elk Grove Village has gone down the drain in Chicago federal court, with a judge saying no evidence was presented that a village inspector orchestrated a campaign by village employees to hassle the plumber for refusing to loan tools to the inspector. -
Flight attendants wage, hour class action vs Skywest moved to Chicago federal courts, to join already pending action
A class-action lawsuit claiming SkyWest Airlines systemically underpays its flight attendants was transferred Dec. 9 from a federal court district in California to Chicago federal court, joining a virtually identical class action already pending against the airline in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. -
Client accuses two law firms of malpractice in personal injury case
CHICAGO – A Cook County man is suing two law firms, alleging they made mistakes in handling his personal injury case. -
Happy returns? Restaurateurs, lawyers watch to see how no-tipping policies impact profits, labor litigation
As the calendar moves into 2016 and beyond, the hospitality industry could see a growing shift among restaurants to no-tipping policies, should restaurateurs across the country see many happy returns for the handful of dining establishments that have already eliminated tipping – and see whether the change might help delete lawsuits over the treatment of tipped employees from the country’s litigation menu. -
Kraft loses bid to toss federal claims it manipulated wheat markets in 2011
Kraft Foods will need to continue to fight an action brought by federal commodities trading regulators after a federal judge refused to toss the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s lawsuit alleging the food company improperly manipulated wheat prices to their benefit. -
Madison County lands on "Judicial Hellholes" list; Cook off list for 2nd consecutive year
For the second consecutive year, Cook County was not listed on the American Tort Reform Association’s annual registry of the country’s worst “Judicial Hellholes.” However, downstate Madison County, thanks in large part to what the group calls an asbestos “rocket docket,” was again subjected to a torching this year, as ATRA released its annual report. -
Amazon can use rejected settlement offer to fight background check class action, judge says
A Chicago federal judge has ruled a plaintiff, who is leading a putative class action suit against Amazon for allegedly rejecting his job application after a background check turned up what the plaintiff said is a bogus report of a drug conviction, can’t stop the online retailer from using the plaintiff’s decision to reject a settlement offer as a defense to ward off the class action suit. -
Wood Dale residents say Seterus, Fannie Mae cheated them into foreclosure, wrongly took their home
Two Wood Dale residents have sued Fannie Mae, alleging the federal mortgage agency was in cahoots with a private home loan servicing company to hoodwink them into surrendering their house to foreclosure, under the guise they were late on loan payments. -
Class action alleges home loan servicer Seterus refused to terminate PMI on modified loans, violating laws, loan terms
A Romeoville man is in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois, alleging a home loan servicing company is sticking him and other troubled borrowers with unneeded mortgage insurance because the company gets a cut of the premiums. -
EPA sues Rockford under Clean Water Act, but just part of compliance process, Rockford officials say
Federal environmental regulators have sued the city of Rockford, continuing the process of bringing the water treatment system in Illinois' third largest city into compliance with federal water laws.The Environmental Protection Agency filed suit Oct. 8 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Rockford, asserting the city's water treatment system remains non-compliant with the federal Clean Water Act. -
Judge declines to drop Androgel maker Besins from huge lawsuit over testosterone treatment side effects
A federal judge has declined to drop the Belgian company which makes Androgel and its American licensee from a multi-state class action lawsuit, which alleges the companies’ testosterone restorative drug is not only useless, but harmful. However, the judge did leave the door open that jurisdiction over the case could lay elsewhere. -
Romeoville church contends village zoning regulations box out small churches, break federal, state law
A church has asked a federal judge to determine whether Caesar has asked it to render too much, as the religious group has alleged zoning regulations in the village of Romeoville are discriminatory, making it almost impossible for small churches to locate in the village. On Sept. 4, Truth Foundation Ministries (TFM) filed a three-count complaint in the U.S. -
IL state officials tossed from discrimination lawsuit vs Eden Supportive Living over mental health policies
A Chicago federal judge has tossed several state officials, including former Gov. Patrick Quinn, from a suit brought by two women and a fair housing group, which alleged officials wrongly barred the mentally ill from a Medicaid-supported housing program. -
Bankrupt lender can't sue GE for allegedly lengthening lifespan of Ponzi scheme that ensnared them
A Chicago federal judge has dismissed litigation brought against GE Capital by the trustee for a bankrupt lender who claimed the bank’s failure to publicly expose a Ponzi scheme before the scheme was halted by law enforcement cost the bankrupt lender millions of dollars in defaulted loans. -
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: Bankruptcy filing should not stop Caesars from facing creditors' lawsuits potentially worth billions
A group of investors and lenders have won the right to press on with claims potentially worth billions of dollars against Caesars Entertainment Corp., after a federal bankruptcy judge ruled bankruptcy filings by a subsidiary company shouldn’t shield the parent company from legal actions brought by bondholders and creditors alleging Caesars used a series of refinancings and transfers between the companies to improperly shield assets. -
Jimmy John's assistant manager overtime lawsuits moved to Chicago federal court
Jimmy John’s, a popular Illinois-based chain of sandwich shops, now faces multiple class action lawsuits over its treatment of assistant managers at its hundreds of restaurants across the country. And each of those class actions will be litigated in Chicago’s federal court. -
Defendants seek federal court hearing in injured customer case
Defendants in a recently filed case in Philadelphia County Common Please Court are asking a federal judge to remove them from the ongoing civil action. -
There will be litigation: AMC alleges suburban environmental consultant falsified deeds for South Barrington wetlands, attempted to 'extort' $800K from theater chain
Now playing in Chicago federal court: A lawsuit by a nationwide movie theater chain against a suburban environmental consultant for allegedly falsifying deeds to extort payment from the chain for land the company already owned at its South Barrington cinematic multiplex. -
Jury awards $23 million to investor who says was swindled by investors working with Rezko
A federal jury has awarded almost $23 million to Semir Sirazi, an investor who claimed an investment group cheated him out of millions of dollars by executing a deal with corrupt Illinois campaign financier Antoin “Tony” Rezko to secretly transfer to them Rezko’s ownership interests in a large South Loop development property, helping Rezko skirt a requirement to repay Sirazi should the property be sold, while gaining access to large amounts of money as legal problems swirled about him.