Law 360

JULY 19, 2023

State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases so far this year that have altered the legal landscape for biometric privacy claims in the state, opened up an area of uncertainty for False Claims Act litigants and upheld a state statute tacking 6% prejudgment interest onto personal injury and wrongful death verdicts.

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Law 360

APRIL 17, 2024

A recent Illinois appellate court decision, National Fire Insurance v.

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JURIST

AUGUST 17, 2022

ranitidine) caused him to develop esophageal cancer, told the court and drug manufacturers that he intended to file a notice of voluntary dismissal. Additionally, there are state court cases filed against GSK in California and Illinois set to begin in February 2023. Joseph Bayer, who claimed Zantac (also known as ??ranitidine)

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

.” In a statement to The Verge , a TikTok spokesperson refuted these claims, but also said , “Rather than go through lengthy litigation, we’d like to focus our efforts on building a safe and joyful experience for the TikTok community.”

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of the biggest players in Illinois politics faces a criminal racketeering trial, a host of lawsuits filed under a decades-old genetic information privacy law will advance and the state's high court is expected to further weigh in on insurance coverage for litigation under the state's biometric privacy statute in some of the Illinois cases to watch (..)

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Agri Stats has asked a Minnesota federal court to transfer the government's case accusing the company of operating an illegal information exchange for meat processors to Illinois, where a judge has already rejected similar claims in multidistrict litigation over chicken prices.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

They can also find positions on the State level, such as the Attorney General’s Office, and finally, opportunities exist at the Federal level with various agencies such as the Department of Justice, Military, Courts, Social Security Administration, CIA, Department of Transportation, and IRS to name a few. Here in Illinois, www.2.illinois.gov

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2022

Though two recent rulings by Massachusetts and Illinois federal courts add to the growing body of case law denying discovery into litigation funding arrangements, prudence necessitates that lawyers, clients and funders follow certain best practices to ensure that their communications are not discoverable by opposing parties, says Stewart Ackerly at (..)

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation. Drivers Behind Practice Specialization. Increased confidence.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 27, 2021

District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, it’s likely that jurors will be spread… If you have a trial coming up in the U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 5, 2024

An Illinois federal judge refused on Friday to spell out exactly what Hytera Communications should tell a Chinese court to lift the U.S.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2025

Jurors will decide the fate of one of Illinois' most powerful politicians after a monthslong criminal racketeering trial and appellate courts could settle the debate over the retroactivity of damage limits to the state's much-litigated biometric privacy law, in just a few of the Illinois cases to watch in 2025.

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LegalReader

JULY 3, 2021

A federal appellate court recently ruled that an insurer has to defend an Illinois equestrian business from a lawsuit.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An Illinois federal judge granted a win to an insurer in a coverage dispute with a condiment company over biometric privacy litigation, changing course Tuesday in response to a state appeals decision concerning an identical policy exclusion.

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Law 360

MAY 6, 2024

No-poach antitrust litigation against McDonald's is getting back underway in Illinois federal court following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal of the fast food giant's appeal, spurring the district court judge to consider whether more discovery might be needed to determine the appropriate standard that will govern the case.

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Law 360

JUNE 17, 2024

and a class of truck drivers who challenged the railroad's gate-access practices neared final approval Monday, resolving litigation that had been pending in Illinois' state and federal courts. A $75 million biometric privacy settlement between BNSF Railway Co.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An Illinois appellate court ruled Tuesday that two insurers are not responsible for part of a $19 million settlement in underlying biometric privacy litigation based on a broad violation-of-law policy exclusion, saying the Seventh Circuit's recent analysis of nearly identical language is not "an accurate reflection of Illinois law."

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. “MK has not alleged any lost revenue or added expenditures as a result of DNP’s conduct,” wrote U.S. .

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Law 360

JULY 1, 2024

The Brooklyn federal judge handling multidistrict litigation over Visa and Mastercard merchant fees on Monday suggested that a case alleging the credit card companies had agreements with Apple that violated antitrust law should be sent back to Illinois federal court, saying the facts in the case are not similar enough.

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Law 360

AUGUST 6, 2024

Jones Day wants to prevent former client Soverain Software LLC from exiting a decade-long spat over $2 million in unpaid legal fees, telling an Illinois state court that Soverain's bid to bring the litigation to a close "is a house of cards that collapses with the slightest breeze."

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Law 360

MARCH 21, 2023

Seeking to undo an unusual order blocking it from signing settlements in high-value antitrust litigation, food industry giant Sysco Corp. told an Illinois federal court that an arbitrator's recent injunction belies "uniform, nationwide public policy" in favor of settlements.

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Law 360

JULY 22, 2024

Chicago-based Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres LLC has added a former Illinois Supreme Court justice and a former Hinshaw & Culbertson attorney as litigation partners.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Illinois Supreme Court's anticipated rulings in Tims v. White Castle could alter the outlook for Biometric Information Privacy Act litigation, putting an end to companies' and insurers' willingness to pour money into expensive settlements, say Pamela Signorello and Megan Brown at Wiley. Black Horse and Cothron v.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2022

QUESTION: I’ve represented an individual client for almost 20 years in various transactional and litigation matters. In this event, the lawyer must seek permission from the court to withdraw, if applicable, or take further protective actions allowed under Rule 1.14(b) b) outside the bounds of a normal lawyer-client relationship.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Cook County public guardian is suing Illinois child welfare officials for allowing foster children to remain locked up in juvenile detention even after they’ve been ordered released — a problem that has only gotten worse, an Illinois Answers Project investigation found last year. It feels like nobody cares about me.

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Patently O

MARCH 31, 2021

Tiffany Cunningham: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Cunningham has been a partner at Perkins Coie LLP in Chicago, Illinois since 2014. She is a member of the Patent Litigation practice and serves on the 17-member Executive Committee of the firm. Dyk on the U.S. Cunningham received her J.D.

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Law 360

APRIL 26, 2022

Amazon's top brass has misled investors as to the e-commerce giant's compliance with the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act as well as the substantial litigation risks associated with its lackluster compliance, according to a stockholder derivative suit filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2025

An Illinois appellate panel affirmed the dismissal of a Fair Credit Reporting Act complaint filed by a man who was dismissed from federal class action litigation against TransUnion after a U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision, rejecting the plaintiff's argument that he pursued the claims in a timely manner.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

In litigation, for example, in a large firm, as a litigation paralegal , you may perform only discovery tasks whereas, in a small firm, you may be handling case intakes, case management, writing demands, filing lawsuits, performing discovery, legal research, motion practice, and trial practice. That will dictate the “where.”

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Patently O

OCTOBER 6, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit addressed several key issues in intellectual property litigation, including the scope of "absolute litigation privilege" under Illinois law, trade dress functionality, and the consequences of discovery sanctions. Toyo Tire Corp. Atturo Tire Corporation , No.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The lawsuit claims that White Castle violated state law when it collected thousands of employees' biometric information without first obtaining their consent.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Background To understand the claims before the court, it is helpful to review the byzantine factual and procedural history of this litigation. Smagin then went to federal court in California to confirm and enforce the arbitration award. Space limitations require that only a partial narrative of that history is possible.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 1, 2023

Faced with no Illinois law directly on point, the federal court determined that the reasoning in Haley v. The Haley could found the courts of Louisiana would permit recovery for emotional distress “during a negligently produced ordeal” Continue reading Pan American World Airways, Inc., 2d 311, 314-15 (5th Cir.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a challenge to the constitutionality of the law. The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation went to federal court in California in December 2019 to challenge the law. A federal district court rejected the challengers’ argument, and the U.S.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A federal court in Illinois agreed with Google that a biometric privacy lawsuit filed against it in the Northern District of Illinois should be stayed in favor of a similar pending state court case.

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