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Nationwide class action blocked vs McDonald's over 'no-poach' employment policy; Judge: Lawyers reached for 'jackpot'
A group of female plaintiffs said McDonald's policies, which were abandoned in 2017, violated federal antitrust law. The judge said there is evidence the policies may have actually strengthened competition among franchisees. -
Appeals panel says $59M in penalties for mortgage relief firms must be reworked
Lawyers weren't exempt from CFPB enforcement, but judge erred in calculating how much they should pay, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. -
Attorneys general urge SCOTUS to rule that CTU violated teachers' speech rights by taking dues after teachers said stop
Attorneys general from Texas, Arizona, Missouri and 13 other states filed a brief in support of the class action lawsuit on behalf of 24,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers and other workers vs the Chicago Teachers Union. -
Judge: Pritzker's pledge to not restrict churches over COVID should end church's suit over prior restrictions
A Chicago federal judge has dismissed a Chicago church's lawsuit vs Gov. JB Pritzker over Pritzker's continued claim to emergency public health powers to close churches, saying Pritzker's promise not to do so again moots their complaint over orders Pritzker issued and rescinded in spring 2020. -
Top IL Dem lawmakers ask federal court to toss challenge to new legislative district maps
Illinois Democrats assert the lawsuits brought by GOP leaders and a Mexican legal group, which accuse the Democrats of improperly drawing district boundaries without official Census data, must fail because there is no official Census data to compare their new maps against. -
Appeals court: Fired gay music minister can't claim 'hostile work environment' to sue Archdiocese for discrimination
A divided 10-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court said the former music minister can't use hostile work environment claims to sidestep the Catholic Church's First Amendment protection in church ministerial employment decisions. -
Judge: School officials had no constitutional obligation to stop DeKalb middle school student from being bullied
The lawsuit against the DeKalb School District 428 was one of several arguing school districts violate students' rights by not doing more to prevent bullying by other students. -
Judge: Chicago's bow to activists, imperling General Iron permit, not 'final decision,' so not yet illegal taking
While Chicago may have violated its own permitting rules and state law at the behest of left-wing activists, the city hasn't yet "taken" General Iron's property, so the company can't yet sue the city in federal court, a federal judge said. -
Appeals panel squashes enviro group's lawsuit over Vermilion River coal ash pollution
Prairie Rivers Network can't prove it has standing to sue concerning groundwater coal ash discharge, appeals panel said -
SCOTUS decision could spur more religious freedom-based challenges to LGBTQ anti-discrimination rules, perhaps in IL
A U.S. Supreme Court decision declared Philadelphia violated a Catholic foster care agency's rights by demanding it certify same-sex couples for foster care placement, but that decision will likely only lead to more cases, the court's conservatives warned. -
Appeals panel: 'Stateless' law firm partners means ex-Trump advisor Carter Page can't sue over Steele dossier in federal court
Former Trump 2016 campaign advisor Carter Page can't use federal courts in Chicago, or anywhere, to sue the law firm of Perkins Coie for pushing Russian collusion story. -
Judge: Homeowners can't sue their village for merely allowing their homes to be built in flood-prone areas
A Chicago federal judge doused a lawsuit brought by a group of homeowners in Channahon, on the Will-Grundy county line, over claims the village government should pay for damage to their homes from repeated floods. -
Chicago church: Court order still needed to block Pritzker from ever reimposing COVID church worship restrictions
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he has no intention to ever restrict church services again, asks court to dismiss a church's long-running legal challenge to his COVID-related authority. -
SCOTUS won't hear oil, gas driller's lawsuit accusing IL of using regulations to all but ban fracking, strip property rights
Next Energy LLC had asserted an Illinois state moratorium on oil and gas fracking permits, coupled with a thicket of new drilling rules, amounted to an unconstitutional taking of lease and property rights, locking out drillers looking to invest potentially billions into an economically struggling part of the state. -
'A constitutional amendment would do nothing…' IL Sen. President Harmon’s pension errors and falsehoods
Look to Arizona, Rhode Island, to see real world examples of public pension reform solutions beyond saying, "Just going to have to pay it," says reform advocate Wirepoints -
Pritzker can't kill FoxFire legal challenge of guv's restaurant shutdown order, Springfield judge says
'The governor cannot rely on emergency powers indefinitely,' wrote Sangamon County Judge Raylene Grischow, in denying Gov. JB Pritzker's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the owner of Geneva restaurant, FoxFire. -
Restaurant, retail advocates urge appeals panel to limit 'absurd,' 'grossly excessive' reach of IL biometrics law
Retail and restaurant associations have asked the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to side with White Castle in a dispute over "absurd" sums that class action plaintiffs can demand in lawsuits under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. -
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear church's challenge vs Pritzker's power to impose religious gathering restrictions
A Chicago church had sought an order preventing Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker from reimposing restrictions on religious gatherings over COVID-19. Pritzker has pledged not to do so, but won't disavow the powers he asserted last spring. -
Appeals court says SCOTUS decision on union fees only applies to fees extracted from non-union workers, not dues paid by union members
A federal appeals panel has said an ex-union member has no claim for dues voluntarily paid while a member, because the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling only pertained to fees forcibly paid to unions by nonunion workers for represention. -
Landlord who evicted Double Door can't continue suing city over zoning change despite alleged aldermanic vendetta
Appeals panel said Moreno 'may have acted corruptly or maliciously' but still immune from lawsuit