News from March 2022

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Susan Lorenc gives ‘Employment Law Master Class’ on business consultant Dave Lorenzo's podcast

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Susan Lorenc gives ‘Employment Law Master Class’ on business consultant Dave Lorenzo's podcast.
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Bed Bath & Beyond online platform PersonalizationMall.com to pay $4.5M to settle worker fingerprint scans class action

By Scott Holland |
Workers would get $569-$952 each, lawyers will get up to $1.5M from the settlement
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Melrose Park residents' lawsuit 'paints a picture of state-sanctioned bullying' from Mayor Serpico, judge says

By Scott Holland |
The lawsuit accuses Melrose Park Mayor Ron Serpico of orchestrating a long-running campaign of harassment against a family, culminating in $30,000 in fines and a viral video recorded tirade, loaded with obscenities and a racial slur

Illinois Supreme Court Creates Remote Proceedings Task Force

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Illinois Supreme Court Creates Remote Proceedings Task Force.
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Judge shuts off Cicero's bid to flush BNSF claims $1M yearly sewer bill hike broke federal law protecting railroads

By Jonathan Bilyk |
BNSF said the town of Cicero's efforts in 2021 to force the railroad to pay $1 million more in sewer bills amounted to an illegal effort to force BNSF to help the town close a budget hole, and violated federal laws prohibiting local taxes on interstate railroads
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IL legislation would OK 'predatory lending practices' in third-party lawsuit funding, boost costs for all, biz groups warn

By Jonathan Bilyk |
SB1099, the so-called Consumer Legal Funding Act, would produce even more lawsuits, that take longer to settle, while allowing lawsuit investors to charge 18% interest rates, assessed every 6 months, to people borrowing money to fund lawsuits, business groups say
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Appeals panel: State Farm has no obligation to cover restaurant's losses from Pritzker's COVID closure orders

By Scott Holland |
While the restaurant only closed because the governor ordered them to do so, it was the COVID-19 virus that actually caused the losses, so the steep losses the businesses suffered aren't physical losses covered by insurance policies, state appeals judges ruled
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Issues in Higher Education | Legal Considerations and Best Practices for Diversity Hiring Initiatives in Higher Education on March 22, 2022

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Issues in Higher Education | Legal Considerations and Best Practices for Diversity Hiring Initiatives in Higher Education on March 22, 2022.
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Judge rules Continental Casualty may have told 'half-truth' by saying premiums could only be raised nationwide

By Dan Churney |
A judge has ruled plaintiffs can keep up their lawsuit accusing Chicago-based Continental Casualty of breaching policies by upping premiums state by state rather than across the nation
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Lawsuit lenders say biz opposition to regulation law 'disingenuous' effort to block lawsuit lending in IL

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A trade association representing lawsuit lenders in Illinois says business groups' push for greater transparency and disclosure rules for lawsuit lending would unfairly harm plaintiffs
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Bite-Sized Legal Food Webinar Series on March 22, 2022

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Bite-Sized Legal Food Webinar Series on March 22, 2022.
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BNSF can't use federal rail law to end truckers' biometrics class action over fingerprint scans to enter rail yards

By Scott Holland |
A federal judge says federal laws don't necessarily preempt the notice and consent rules for fingerprint scans under Illinois' biometrics privacy law, even if the scans are designed to comply with federal transportation security rules
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Appeals court OKs $97.5M for lawyers who got $650M from Facebook in photo tags class action

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A California federal appeals court says the big fee award to the lawyers for their work leading the class action under Illinois' biometrics law wasn't excessive
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Judge again nixes bid by Smollett lawyer to escape Nigerian bros' slander suit over 'whiteface' claim

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A federal judge says the Osundairo brothers can keep suing lawyer Tina Glandian for asserting in a TV interview that the brothers had worn "whiteface" when they allegedly helped Jussie Smollett stage the alleged hate crime attack against the actor
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The Hispanic National Bar Association Selects Gray Mateo-Harris Among Top Lawyers Under 40 Honorees

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The Hispanic National Bar Association Selects Gray Mateo-Harris Among Top Lawyers Under 40 Honorees.
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DeVore lawsuit targets Chicago vax-or-test mandate for workers, says mandate is illegal

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Attorney Tom DeVore has filed suit on behalf of dozens of Chicago city workers, arguing Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine-or-test mandate wasn't issued legally, and violates city workers' due process rights
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Jacksonville Jaguars claim insurer owes millions for COVID losses team suffered in 2020-21

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The NFL franchise sued Chicago-based Axis Surplus Insurance Company in Cook County court, asserting the insurer wrongly denied the team's claim for loss coverage under a $6 million business interruption policy
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U.S. District Court Orders Suburban Chicago Company To Stop Distribution of Adulterated and Misbranded Nutritional Supplements

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U.S. District Court Orders Suburban Chicago Company To Stop Distribution of Adulterated and Misbranded Nutritional Supplements.
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Judge says Illinois voter registration list is public, state broke law by refusing access to conservative group

By Dan Churney |
A judge has ruled Illinois must turn over the state's list of registered voters to a politically conservative watchdog group, saying the list needs to be public to make sure the electoral process is on the up and up.
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Tripoli Earns Declaratory Judgment in Cook County Bench Trial

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Tripoli Earns Declaratory Judgment in Cook County Bench Trial.

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