14 results for 'judge:"Kocoras"'.
J. Kocoras partially grants the Chicago Transit Authority’s motion to dismiss an employment discrimination and retaliation suit brought by a former employee. That former employee sued the CTA after he says he endured harassment from his peers and unduly harsh treatment from his superiors after coming out as bisexual to several coworkers. The CTA also suspended and eventually fired him after he filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The court dismisses the employee’s claims under the Illinois Human Rights Act for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies, but his remaining civil rights claims stand.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: September 10, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv4041, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Lgbtq, Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Kocoras grants a food company's motion to dismiss a consumer class action. The plaintiff consumer, who is concerned for the well-being of farm animals, thought the company's eggs being labeled as "Farm Fresh" meant that the egg hens lived in a cage-free environment. He filed suit for fraud after discovering the company's egg hens spend their lives in cages. The court finds the consumer has failed to state a claim, ruling nothing in the term "Farm Fresh" implies the hens live outside of cages.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: August 6, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv14916, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Agriculture, Fraud, Class Action
J. Kocoras settles this 14-year-old legal fight over Chicago gun control ordinances by finding that the city's ban on gun laser sights can stand. The court finds laser sights are not weapons that enjoy Second Amendment protection, so the city’s prohibition of them does not violate the constitution. The court also grants Chicago summary judgment on gun retailers’ claims for nominal damage; the retailers have not sufficiently shown how they suffered nominal damages stemming from their never-opened gun shops in the city. A since-repealed city ordinance did make it harder for gun shops to open in Chicago, but the court finds that the plaintiffs’ planned businesses were always speculative.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: July 22, 2024, Case #: 1:10cv4257, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Constitution, Municipal Law, Firearms
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J. Kocoras partially grants the defendant businesscouple’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff businessman’s fraud, conspiracy, accounting and unjust enrichment claims. The parties had a falling out over their shared business venture to open an Italian bakery in Chicago, and the plaintiff accused the defendant couple of misusing common funds and withholding business information from him. The court finds there is not enough evidence to tie the wife to any of the claims, but allows several claims to stand against the husband.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: July 17, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv2865, NOS: Commerce - Other Suits, Categories: Commerce, Fraud, Business Practices
J. Kocoras partially grants and partially denies both groups of window and curtain companies’ motions for summary judgment on the plaintiff companies’ patent claims against the defendants. The plaintiff companies alleges the defendant companies are infringing on their patents for a curtain wall system used for facades in high-rise buildings, which the defendants contest. The court splits the opposing motions for summary judgment; finding the defendants have not infringed on certain elements of the system but have infringed on others.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: April 9, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv6618, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Construction, Patent, Technology
J. Kocoras denies the sued lawyer and law firm’s motion to compel the production of documents from the suing real estate investor. The investor is suing the lawyer and law firm for malpractice, stemming from poor legal advice the lawyer gave the investor while he was looking to sign a property guaranty loan potentially worth $47 million. The loan defaulted, and while the investor blames the lawyer for his $4 million liability, the lawyer places blame on yet another attorney who counseled the investor. The lawyer seeks communications between the investor and that attorney, but the court concludes these communications are privileged.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: March 18, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1302, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Real Estate, Discovery, Legal Malpractice
J. Kocoras grants the University of California, Berkeley engineering department motion for summary judgment, and partially grants the sued data analytics platform’s motion for summary judgment, on the university’s claims that the defendant infringed on its patents for programs designed to calculate object level profitability. The court mostly finds in the university’s favor in the patent dispute, but finds in the platform’s favor on the university’s claim that the platform induced infringement by encouraging its customers to use the university’s programs.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: 1:17cv7472, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Education, Patent
J. Kocoras denies Chicago and its police officers’ motion for summary judgment on a resident’s claims of unreasonable seizure, false arrest, and malicious prosecution, finding the resident has sufficiently alleged that police entered his home without a warrant and arrested him without probable cause.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: February 15, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1564, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Malicious Prosecution, Police Misconduct
J. Kocoras grants a real estate company’s motion to sever for one of the five individual former employees claims for improper joinder. The company request to sever the claims into individual actions, arguing they are not the same transaction or occurrence. The one employee is granted leave to amend her complaint because her claims do not come from the same series of transaction or occurrence as the others. The motion on the other four employees is denied without prejudice and they fail to establish the claims are properly joined. Therefore, the four remaining employees can file an amended complaint.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: November 2, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv3237, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment