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SCOTUS gives Northwestern retirees another crack at lawsuit vs university over handling of retirement plans
Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court says Seventh Circuit got the law wrong, sends case back for a new look
Review of Significant D&O Cases for the Second Half of 2021 on January 26, 2022
Review of Significant D&O Cases for the Second Half of 2021 on January 26, 2022.
Ogletree Deakins Reveals Its 2022 Shareholder Class
Ogletree Deakins Reveals Its 2022 Shareholder Class.
Thomas D. Donofrio Promoted to Partner in Tressler's Insurance Practice Group
Thomas D. Donofrio Promoted to Partner in Tressler's Insurance Practice Group.
Stacked costs reach critical mass in Illinois
Illinois businesses are under stress from lawmakers and lawyers, and the damage could go beyond repair, if Illinois voters don't reject a ballot measure to rewrite the state constitution to give unions broad new powers, says Tim Simeone, of the Technology and Manufacturing Assocation
Federal judge: 'Breakthrough cases' of COVID don't legally undermine Chicago vax passport orders
A federal judge said the seeming inability of COVID vaccines to prevent people from becoming infected with COVID doesn't mean the city of Chicago's COVID vaccine passport orders are 'irrational or arbitrary'
IL Supreme Court says injured workers can sue third-party contractors, even if contractors pay workers' compensation
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled a third-party general contractor from Chicago is not shielded from a lawsuit by an injured worker, even though the contractor paid workers' compensation benefits to the worker, because only direct employers who cover workers' compensation are insulated from liability.
Supreme Court Mental Health Task Force Leading Change
Supreme Court Mental Health Task Force Leading Change.
Jennifer L. Smith Promoted to Partner in Tressler's Litigation Practice Group
Jennifer L. Smith Promoted to Partner in Tressler's Litigation Practice Group.
Stone Park asks to toss red light camera class action, says lead plaintiff didn't actually stop at red light
The village of Stone Park says the lead plaintiff on a class action over its red light camera system can't actually sue them, because the village dismissed his ticket and he didn't actually stop at the red light before he turned right and triggered the camera
Judge said parents of Plainfield Central football players can't sue over alleged locker room assault
Kocoras rules the coaches' alleged failure to stop the assaults doesn't mean Plainfield School District 202 should be made to pay
Springfield judge to rule soon on request for order barring enforcement of school masks, student COVID 'exclusion'
Plaintiffs say Gov. JB Pritzker and 140 school districts overstepped the state's public health law in issuing statewide COVID mask, testing and student 'exclusion' mandates, unilaterally rewriting state quarantine rules in the process
Chicago condo association can negotiate sale of condo building without prior approval of unit owners: IL appeals panel
Ontario Place unit owners said state law should have required their condo association to get approval from a supermajority of condo owners before the association even began negotiating sale terms with a prospective buyer
Vaccine registry proposal is tops in totalitarianism
Just when you think Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly could not possibly come up with anything more totalitarian than canceling elections in places where opposition to their regime is growing, a member of the super majority came up with one.
Pret a Manger agrees to pay $677K to settle IL biometrics class action over worker punch clock fingerprint scans
Almost 800 employees to get $518 each under terms of proposed deal; Lawyers would get $240,000. The restaurant chain closed all of its Chicago locations after the onset of the COVID pandemic
Online ID verifier Jumio hit with yet another IL biometrics class action over user face scans
Jumio had settled similar claims in a different lawsuit in 2020, but new lawsuit says Jumio didn't change its policies or behavior, and now can be sued again under the same claims
Antitrust Litigator Holden Brooks Joins McGuireWoods as Partner in Chicago and D.C.
Antitrust Litigator Holden Brooks Joins McGuireWoods as Partner in Chicago and D.C.
Report: NorthShore could face hundreds of lawsuits from workers fired for refusing COVID vax
Lawyers for plaintiffs suing NorthShore University Healthsystem over its employee COVID vaccine mandate assert 'several hundred' workers have been improperly fired after NorthShore allegedly improperly refused their requests for religious exemption from the company's COVID vaccine mandate for hospital workers
Class action accuses El Milagro of 'fostering sexually hostile work environment' towards women
The class action lawsuit alleges the popular tortilla maker violated the Illinois Human Rights Act.
That’s All Folks! Have Federal Courts Killed Privilege Protections for Forensic Reports on January 20, 2022
That’s All Folks! Have Federal Courts Killed Privilege Protections for Forensic Reports on January 20, 2022.