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Update: In 7-0 decision, SupCo says Illinois courts lack specific personal jurisdiction over Bayer in non-resident claims
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Bayer Corp., which challenged Madison County mass action suits involving more than 150 non-Illinoisans. -
HOLLAND & KNIGHT: Developments and Trends in ERISA Fiduciary Litigation: 401(K), ESOP and Retirement Mortality Table Assumptions
Please join Holland & Knight's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group and ERISA, ESOP and Employee Benefits Litigation Team for a presentation on recent developments and trends in litigation facing ERISA fiduciaries. -
Class action: SEIU Healthcare wrongly deducted dues from union members who wanted out
A new federal class action asserts labor union SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana threw up illegal barriers to make it harder for personal assistants to leave the union and stop paying dues, violating their constitutional rights. -
SCOTUS: Pritzker's about-face on restricting worship services allows him to sidestep hearing on COVID church rules
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied two Chicago area churches' reequest for an order declaring Pritzker to have violated the First Amendment in closing churches and limiting the size of in-person worship services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Pritzker says new COVID church 'guidelines' should thwart SCOTUS showdown; Churches say court should still rule
Attorneys for two Chicago area churches say they will press the U.S. Supreme Court to still declare Gov. JB Pritzker's limits on church worship services unconstitutionally 'trampled' religious freedoms. -
Churches ask SCOTUS to step in, block Pritzker's COVID orders prohibiting in-person church services
Saying they are threatened with "accelerating" enforcement actions against then, two Chicago area churches have petititoned the U.S. Supreme Court to block Gov. JB Pritzker's orders sharply limiting the size of in-person worship services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Suit: Chicago Teachers Union violates members' rights, forces them to keep paying dues, despite leaving union
A pair of teachers are suing the Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Board of Education for allegedly breaching teachers' freedom of speech, by deducting union dues to subsidize the union's political positions without members' consent. -
Appeals panel parks wheelchair access class action vs Uber
Nonprofit disability access advocacy group Access Living and one of its staff members couldn't prove they were directly discriminated against to continue their class action vs the ride-hailing service under the Americans with Disabilities Act. -
Appeals panel: Failure to notify under IL biometrics law 'concrete' injury; Class actions can belong in federal court
A panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals says federal judges are wrong to send class actions under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act back to Cook County court. -
Appeals panel agrees Lincolnshire didn't violate union members' rights by belonging to Illinois Municipal League
Federal suit alleged village violated rights by using tax money to pay dues to lobby group that backed Right to Work zones -
Judge says health insurer Anthem not responsible for Chicago affiliate's alleged practice of improperly denying claims
Health insurer Anthem can't be held accountable for an affiliated company's denials of coverage, which allegedly violated Medicare rules, a judge has said. -
Bar associations pan some IL Supreme Court campaigns; Epstein: Rating a result of 'inflexible rule' based on candidate legal experience
Candidate Daniel Epstein says his "not recommended" rating was based on a "bright line rule" for bar associations, which withholds candidate recommendations from judicial candidates with less than 10 years experience. -
Appeals panel: SCOTUS precedent doesn't block out of state plaintiffs in nationwide class actions
Class actions are different 'mass actions' limited by U.S. Supreme Court's Bristol Myers Squibb ruling, the appeals panel ruled. -
Appeals court refuses to reinstate $3M verdict for widow, who sued GSK over husband’s suicide
The woman's lawyers had claimed GSK never fully updated warning labels for its antidepressant Paxil to reflect true suicide risk. -
SCOTUS precedent may not block health care providers price-fixing conspiracy lawsuit vs Becton Dickinson, says appeal panel
While indirect purchasers are normally blocked by the Illinois Brick decision from pursuing antitrust claims, in this case the plaintiffs are asserting the group purchase organizations and distributors were in on the alleged price fixing, too. -
Timing critical in using 'tender' offers to thwart would-be class actions, attorneys say
Class actions can be resolved by satisfying the named plaintiffs' demands. -
Feds tell SCOTUS it's legal for Chicago to keep cars seized from bankrupt owners for unpaid parking tickets
The U.S. Justice Department is telling the U.S. Supreme Court the City of Chicago has a right to retain cars confiscated over unpaid parking tickets, from car owners who file bankruptcy, without the city having to line up as another creditor in bankruptcy court. -
Federal judge finds no 'actual injury,' sends worker fingerprint scan suit back to Cook County court
Another Chicago federal judge has punted a class action lawsuit over worker fingeprint scans back to Cook County court, where plaintiffs don't need to show they were every actually harmed to sue. -
Illinois Supreme Court says quick settlement offers can still thwart would-be class actions
Building management company offered to pay tenants who sued over security deposit interest -
Appeals panel hangs up on some class actions over 'robo' text messages, dials up potential Supreme Court call
Seventh Circuit Appeals Court in Chicago says some automated dialers acceptable under federal law if they only dial numbers stored in customer databases.