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Quaker crumbles lawsuit accusing deception over 'Simply Granola' label

By Scott Holland |
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

By Jonathan Bilyk |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Jonathan Bilyk |
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

By Jonathan Bilyk |
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

By Jonathan Bilyk |
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

By Scott Holland |
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

By Jonathan Bilyk |
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'

By Scott Holland |
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

By Cook County Record |
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.

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Society Insurance says shouldn't be obligated to cover Cermak Produce vs employees' biometrics class action

By Cook County Record |
Society Insurance has filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court seeking a declaratory judgment that it is not obligated to provide insurance coverage to Cermak Produce, a Chicago-area supermarket chain, in connection with a class action lawsuit.

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Judge: Arbitration clause can potentially end strippers' class action vs club

By Scott Holland |
Lawsuit filed against Scores Chicago Gentleman's Club before Gender Violence Act applied to corporate entities

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Coca-Cola can't seal up class action over artificial sweeteners in Fresca

By Scott Holland |
Legal dispute redounds to definition of 'soda water'

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'Palpable injustice:' Appeals panel says Cook Co. judge wrongly allowed 'one-sided' trial vs restaurant owner

By Jonathan Bilyk |
An IL state appeals panel says Cook County Judge Robert Harris wrongly moved ahead with a "one-sided" trial in which a Rogers Park restaurant owner was ordered to pay $500K to Loyola University amid a court fight over Loyola's alleged refusal to let him reopen a fine dining restaurant in 2021

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Judge peels off class action vs Kroger over effectiveness of lidocaine pain patches

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A federal judge faulted prolific labeling fraud lawsuit filer attorney Spencer Sheehan for attempting to proceed with the class action by swapping out claims and plaintiffs, after the first claim didn't entirely pan out in court

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Biometrics class action tags timeclock maker EPay and one of its clients over worker face scans

By Cook County Record |
A class action lawsuit has accused timeclock maker EPay Systems and a facilities maintenance company, All 1 Service, which uses EPay's timeclocks, of allegedly wrongly scanning workers' faces when they punch the clock, allegedly in violation of Illinois' biometrics privacy law.

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Sargent Logistics accused in class action for scanning truck drivers' faces on the job

By Cook County Record |
A class action lawsuit has accused trucking company Sargent Logistics of allegedly improperly scanning the faces of workers in the company's delivery vehicles, allegedly in violation of Illinois' biometrics privacy law.

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Northwestern, Notre Dame among top U.S. colleges hit with class action over financial aid practices

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A new class action lawsuit says some of America's top colleges and universities have for nearly two decades violated U.S. antitrust law by collectively making it harder for students to obtain need-based financial aid by forcing them to include non-custodial parent income on applications