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Judge OKs antitrust class actions vs big turkey producers over prices
The class actions will include retailers, restaurants and other commercial and institutional customers who purchased turkeys from large U.S. turkey producers from 2010-2016. The lawsuits, similar to those filed against chicken and beef producers, assert the turkey producers conspired to constrict supply and boost prices
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Mistrial ends, for now, first trial vs Isomedix over Lake County EtO emissions
Problems with a juror apparently cut short jury deliberations in the first trial over claims that emissions from medical device sterilization plants in Lake County caused cancers. About 275 similar lawsuits are pending in Cook County court vs Steris Isomedix, the sole remaining unsettled defendant in those lawsuits
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Allstate accused of secretly tracking 45M customers' driving, selling info to other insurers
A class action lawsuit has accused insurance giant Allstate of allegedly secretly tracking customers' movements using their smartphones and then allegedly using that information to allow Allstate and other insurers to justify raising some customers' car insurance rates.
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New Jersey company can't use federal law to end accusations of violating Illinois genetic information privacy law
Chang rules ex-worker's complaint doesn't involve benefit plan falling under ERISA guidelines, so the federal law can't be used to defeat the potentially costly class action brought under Illinois' Genetic Information Privacy Act.
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Appeals court upholds $7M verdict vs ConAgra in cooking spray explosion case
A panel of Illinois state appeals court judges said the verdict came to a reasonable conclusion on product liability and the judge and jury didn't overstep during the trial or in ordering ConAgra to pay millions of dollars to a woman who was injured when the spray oil can exploded while she was cooking in a restaurant kitchen
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Judge tosses suit vs Cook judge accused of illegally blocking adult son from watching parents' divorce hearing
A federal judge appeared to agree a young man had no right to sue Cook County divorce court Judge Abbey Fishman Romanek, even though she is accused of violating the man's constitutional rights by refusing to allow him to listen in via Zoom to a hearing in his parents' contentious divorce case
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Cushman & Wakefield, LivCor, other landlords added to feds', states' rent collusion lawsuit
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul signed onto the legal action first brought by the Justice Department vs real estate property management software vendor RealPage last summer. It now accuses six large corporate landlords of allegedly using RealPage software to set apartment rents artificially high
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Jury orders plastic surgeon to pay $66M to family of woman who bled to death after procedure
The verdict was entered against Dr. Abou Sayeg, who practices plastic surgery in Chicago and Detroit, according to his online bio. Plaintiffs' lawyers estimated the verdict is the largest of its kind in Illinois history.
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Tadros may get trial in defamation case vs Crain's over 2016 article
A Cook County judge on Dec. 10 denied a motion by Crain's Communications to end the lawsuit brought by businessman Philip Tadros, which accused Crain's Chicago Business of defaming him in a 2016 article. The judge said a jury may need to decide if accusing Tadros of a "pattern of mismanagement" was defamatory
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Judge: Lawsuit investor Burford still can't revive Sysco's chicken price claims vs Pilgrim's Pride
A Chicago federal judge said he still hasn't changed his mind about an existence of a deal to end Sysco's chicken price lawsuit vs Pilgrim's Pride, despite objections from third party lawsuit funder Burford Capital
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Quaker crumbles lawsuit accusing deception over 'Simply Granola' label
Judge says reasonable consumers wouldn't be confused by a product called "Simply Granola," because the industry has not yet set a hard and fast definition of granola
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Bears complete settlement to end lawsuit over alleged 'anti-white' discrimination
A federal judge ordered the end of the lawsuit, after the plaintiff, a former paralegal at the law firm that first filed the suit, agreed to confidentially settle the case under undisclosed terms. The suit had accused the Bears of refusing to consider white male applicants for a "diversity" position in its legal office.
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State appeals court: Summit schools OK to expel 13-year-old over pellet gun in backpack
Ruling holds district followed protocol in issuing one-year suspension
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River Forest developer, ex-wife reach deal to end divorce case that has sent man to 'debtors' prison' three times
River Forest developer Frank "Marty" Paris was ordered to jail three times since 2017 amid contentious divorce proceedings, centered in most recent years on a dispute over Paris' obligation to pay his ex-wife's lawyers fees
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Class action accuses ComEd of providing homes with 'less efficient,' substandard power
The lawsuit centers on claims that ComEd's electricity contains allegedly excessive levels of so-called total harmonic distortion, resulting in power that is "less efficient" and of "diminished quality," as measured by Ting sensors. ComEd disputes those measurements, saying Ting sensors aren't the correct tool for that task
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Parents of Latin School student who died by suicide to ask appeal court to OK suit vs school over bullying
A Cook County judge had dismissed the Bronstein family's legal claims vs Latin School of Chicago over the death of their son by suicide, allegedly egged on bullying. The family accused the school of having not done enough to both stop the bullying and prevent their son's death
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Appeals panel curbs class action vs. Markham over red light camera tickets
Complaint hinges on broken website link from 2017, which prevented people from accessing information about the red light camera program, as required by state law. But the appeals court said they did not believe lawmakers intended for such technical violations to allow people to get out of tickets for running red lights
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Target can't clear out customer class action over alleged customer facial recognition cameras
Target has flatly denied it uses facial recognition cameras to monitor customers in its stores. But a judge said he believes plaintiffs need more opportunity to investigate those claims, so he is allowing a lawsuit to continue vs Target under the Illinois biometrics privacy law.
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Judge shuts off class action saying Evian can't be sold as 'natural spring water'
Consumers complained about microplastics leaching from bottles, but a federal judge said the term "natural" applies to the source of the water
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Foxx files suit to get Viverette removed from office in Ford Heights over past criminal convictions
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has filed a lawsuit seeking to remove Ford Heights Village Trustee Jimmy Viverette from office due to his past criminal convictions.