News from August 2023
Lawsuit: FedEx allegedly violated Illinois genetic privacy law by asking about workers' family medical histories
FedEx is accused of violating an Illinois genetic information privacy law by allegedly improperly requiring workers to disclose their family medical history.
Judge will leave it to jury to 'decide who to believe' in big court fight over egg prices
Kraft and other commercial food processors allege multi-prong antitrust conspiracy in which egg producers allegedly shipped eggs overseas at low prices to allegedly drive up prices in the U.S.
Morgan Lewis Practices, Lawyers Recognized as 2023 Ip Stars by Managing Ip
Morgan Lewis has earned 14 practice area and 16 individual lawyer recognitions in Managing Intellectual Property’s 2023 edition of IP Stars for patent, trademark, IP transactional, US International Trade Commission (ITC) litigation, and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) litigation work.
The Best Lawyers in America Names 45 Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer Attorneys in 25 Practice Areas to 2024 List
45 Wilentz attorneys have been named to The Best Lawyers in America list for 2024; 22 have been named to this list for ten years or longer.
Appeals panel: DuPage SWAT officer injured in training exercise can keep $7.5M from trial vs tactical gear maker
Safariland failed to convince 7th Circuit judges it deserved a new trial or to pay less to deputy injured in training exercise involving Safariland's 'breaching rounds,' which are designed to destroy door locks, knobs and other metal hardware
Investment firm accuses Perkins Coie of helping money manager allegedly siphon $12M
Investment company S-R Investments alleges lawyers from the Perkins Coie firm allegedly aided money management firm Stevard's allegedly improper withdrawal of disputed funds, allegedly without proper authorization
Plaintiffs Announce $13.5M Settlement With the University of Chicago Regarding Allegations That It Engaged in Price-Fixing With Sixteen Other Elite Universities in Awarding Financial Aid
In papers filed in federal court, the Plaintiffs announced that the University of Chicago has agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle an antitrust class action brought by a proposed class of current and former students who received financial aid at seventeen elite universities.
Class action accuses private ambulance company of docking EMTs' pay for traffic tickets
A new lawsuit asserts Elite Medical Transportation wrongly deducted workers' pay for moving violations they received while on duty answering medical assistance calls
Chicago accuses group of landlords of running fraudulent rent-to-own scheme
The lawsuit asserts the defendant landlords misled tenants into believing they were responsible for all of the responsibilities of homeownership, without any of the benefits, while maintaining the right to evict them
Appeals panel says Pritzker order may shield nursing homes from negligence lawsuits during Covid
Families of decedents sued Briar Health Services over loved ones' deaths, but the court said they may be immune from those lawsuits under an executive order issued by Gov. JB Pritzker under Illinois' Emergency Management Association in spring 2020
Dot Foods allegedly wrongly asked workers about family medical history, class action accuses
The lawsuit asserts the alleged questions by Dot Foods amounts to a violation of an Illinois state genetic information privacy law
New IL law opens employers, others to risk of massive punitive damages in wrongful death cases; Law could face challenges
HB219, signed by Pritzker, is another controversial state law that appears to have been enacted while ignoring by Democratic state lawmakers who ignored constitutional rules governing how laws must be approved
Greubel and Buckley Obtain Defense Verdict In Retrial of Medical Malpractice Case
Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP attorneys William P. Greubel, III and Shannon E. Buckley obtained a defense verdict at trial on behalf of their client, a nurse practitioner, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
Appeals panel agrees Cook County can't resurrect lending discrimination suit vs Bank of America
County sought to hold financial institutions liable for role in rash of defaulted home loans and extra expenses suffered by the county to deal with the fallout amid the Great Recession in 2008-09
Attorney Andrew Holmstrom Joins HSPRD’s Med Mal Group
We are delighted to announce that Andrew Holmstrom has joined our Medical Malpractice Defense group as an associate attorney.
University of Chicago to pay $13.5M to end class action over alleged elite school financial aid collusion
Deal leaves 16 other elite universities to face claims they participated in a 'cabal' to limit financial aid awards to minimize competition for students
Online streaming service FuboTV sued over customer data sharing
Online streaming TV service FuboTV faces a class action lawsuit, accusing it of allowing its users' history and data to be tracked, allegedly in violation of a federal privacy law.
Appeals panel agrees FOIA can't force Chicago to demand annual reports from waste haulers
Chicago Recycling Coalition strikes out on attempts to force City Hall to produce documents from third-party waste haulers that should have been filed every year under a city ordinance
McGuireWoods Partners Examine Federal Prosecution of Commercial Healthcare Fraud
A recent 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion demonstrates the federal government's interest in prosecuting medical providers who defraud commercial healthcare insurers, McGuireWoods partners Michael Podberesky and Timothy Fry wrote in an Aug. 7, 2023
New lawsuit claims Dixmoor allegedly inflated water bills by millions for Solvay plant
Solvay lawsuit seeks injunction to block a stop work order issued by Dixmoor amid a dispute over the company's allegedly unpaid excess water bills