501 results for 'court:"USDC Northern District of Illinois"'.
J. Johnston dismisses an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class action accusing the dating app of collecting users' facial geometry without consent as part of its "lookalikes" feature, which matched people with dates who resembled celebrities or other romantic interests. The case is dismissed on procedural grounds, as the dating app operators had insufficient service of process and the court lacks jurisdiction over several of them.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Johnston, Filed On: September 18, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv50457, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Privacy, Jurisdiction, Class Action
J. Jenkins partially grants a Chicago suburb's motion for summary judgment on its Albanian-American former employee's national-origin discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation claims. The court finds the former employee has not sufficiently alleged her national-origin discrimination claim, but allows her hostile environment and retaliation claims stand to the extent that they are based on specific instances of abuse the former employee suffered from her coworkers.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: September 14, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv7379, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Wood denies the Illinois Secretary of State's motion to dismiss one of its former employee's discrimination claims. The former employee, who is Black, helped a friend get a restricted driving permit without taking a road test, for which she was fired. Despite the Secretary of State's arguments to the contrary, the court finds her claims are timely, and that she has plausibly alleged that the Secretary of State's Office allowed other non-Black employees get away with similar behavior.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Wood, Filed On: September 13, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv5722, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Government, Employment Discrimination
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J. Jenkins partially grants an engineering consulting firm's motion for summary judgment, and denies its former employee's cross-motion for summary judgment, on the firm's claims that the former employee violated his employment contract. The court finds the former employee did violate his non-compete agreement with the firm when he jumped ship to work for one of the firm's competitors, but denies the firm judgment on the issues of causation and damages.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: September 13, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv6521, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Employment, Interference With Contract, Contract
J. Finnegan partially grants the airline's motion to compel discovery in this case over whether the airline engaged in discriminatory practices by preferring people of Emirati descent in its employment decisions. The employee is compelled to produce a number of audio recordings, and the associated metadata, of her and other airline employees' conversations.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Finnegan, Filed On: September 12, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv1, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Discovery, Employment Discrimination, Aviation
J. Leinenweber partially grants Samsung device users' motion to compel arbitration against Samsung for its refusal to pay filing fees in an underlying Biometric Information Privacy Act suit. The arbitration motion is dismissed as to the 14,335 device users who haven't shown proper venue in the Northern District of Illinois, but arbitration can move forward for those whose proper venue is provably in Northern Illinois.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Leinenweber, Filed On: September 12, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5506, NOS: Arbitration - Other Suits, Categories: Arbitration, Civil Procedure, Privacy
J. Kness grants an electronics company's motion for summary judgment on Walgreen's contract breach, warranty and negligence claims. The electronics company installed an alarm system in one of the pharmacy chain's refrigerated medicine warehouses, which was supposed to alert administrators when the temperature in the warehouse rose too high. The temperature did rise too high after the alarm system failed to work, but the electronics company is still not responsible for the pharmacy's loss of the temperature-sensitive medications.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kness, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 1:17cv2120, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Negligence, Warranty, Contract
J. Kendall partially grants an insurance company's motion to dismiss a class action brought by Black policyholders who argue the company submits their insurance claims to greater scrutiny and makes them wait longer for payouts compared to white policyholders. The policyholders brought several of their claims under the Fair Housing Act, arguing that the company dragging its feet on honoring its Black customers' policies has left those customers facing homelessness or dangerous living conditions. But the customers have not "connected the dots" between their homes' damages and the insurance company's actions. The policyholders' other charge, that the insurance company's AI-driven claims processing system has inherent anti-Black bias, survives.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv7014, NOS: Housing/Accommodations - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Insurance, Class Action
J. Alonso grants a collection of real estate and investment firms' motion to dismiss a pair of apartment renters' 18 claims against them, including race discrimination, extortion and multiple counts of fraud. The pair claim the firms swindled them into renting a filthy, run-down apartment, for which they charged the pair three months' rent up front. The case is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and improper venue.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv4324, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Jurisdiction, Venue
J. Kennelly grants a school district summary judgment on a former school psychologist's ADA and FMLA retaliation claims, but allows the psychologist's FMLA interference claim to survive. The psychologist offers sufficient evidence that would allow a jury to find that the leave she was granted was illusory because the district did not adjust her workload, forcing her to perform the duties of a full-time job on part-time hours while taking care of her sick daughter.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, Family Law, Employment Retaliation
J. Alonso partially grants a tampon manufacturer's motion to dismiss a consumer class action that claims the company's Tampax product falsely asserts that its components are made from cotton and that it uses plant-based applicators instead of oil-based plastic applicators. The class has sufficiently alleged its deceptive practices, unfair practices and warranty claims, but not its negligent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, or common-law fraud claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5036 , NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Warranty, Class Action
J. Cummings denies the defendant specialty machinery manufacturer’s motion to compel the plaintiff event services company to produce documents and witness depositions for this ongoing contract suit. The manufacturer claims the documents and witnesses are important for its case, in which it argues that it does not owe the events services company over $529,000 for constructing its exhibit at a tradeshow. However, the court finds that attorney-client privilege applies to the requested documents.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: September 8, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv5900, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Discovery, Privilege, Contract
J. Seeger grants a rehab clinic’s motion to dismiss fraud claims brought by two of its former executive employees, which allege that the clinic provided patients with unnecessary therapy in order to milk them for Medicare payouts. The court finds the former employees have not provided sufficient evidence to substantiate their claims, but grants them two weeks to amend their complaint.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Seeger, Filed On: September 8, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv6063, NOS: False Claims Act - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Fraud, Medicare, False Claims
J. Rowland grants the plaintiff farm equipment manufacturer’s motion to apply a permanent injunction against the defendant farm equipment manufacturer, barring the defendant from marketing a modular storage bin sweep whose design the plaintiff says violated the patent on its own version of the sweep. The court also alternatively grants and denies multiple miscellaneous post-trial motions from both parties, before entering judgment in the plaintiff’s favor and terminating the case.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Rowland, Filed On: September 7, 2023, Case #: 1:16cv2212, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Agriculture, Patent, Injunction
J. Kennelly partially grants a sued wind turbine manufacturer’s motion for costs from the underlying contract interference suit with the suing Panamanian energy company. The court previously granted the turbine manufacturer summary judgment on all claims brought by the energy company, which alleged that the manufacturer wouldn’t allow the energy company to connect to Panama’s national electric grid via a substation the manufacturer owned. The the manufacturer petition the court for $182,661.56 in costs, the court only grants it $121,672.83.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: September 7, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv5035, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Energy, Attorney Fees, Contract
J. Leinenweber denies a Mexican airline's motion for summary judgment on multiple negligence cases, each brought by a survivor of a 2018 airplane crash. The survivors, all of whom were headed from Durango to Chicago, allege suffering multiple physical and emotional injuries when the airline's plane crashed shortly after takeoff. The court finds there are still factual disputes over the causes of these injuries, making summary judgment inappropriate.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Leinenweber, Filed On: September 6, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv118, NOS: Airplane - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Negligence, Emotional Distress, Aviation
J. Chang partially grants a physical therapy agency's motion to dismiss an insurance company's fraud and securities violation claims. The insurance company claims the therapy agency's buy-out by a financial acquisition company cost investors millions when, only after the merger was complete, the agency and acquisitions company disclosed poor profit projections related to "physical-therapist attrition rates." The court dissects each of the insurance company's claims very particularly, dismissing them in part against individual actors in the therapy agency and acquisitions company, but allowing the claims against other individuals to survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: September 6, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv4349, NOS: Securities/Commodities/Exchange - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Insurance, Securities
J. Gottschall dismisses a proposed class action complaint against Illinois, brought by a Black mother whose minor son has suffered PTSD as a result of his constant exposure to gun violence on Chicago's South Side. The mother proposed a class action against Illinois, the governor and the state police, on behalf of her son and other Black children who have suffered disabilities stemming from gun violence. She sought an injunction compelling the state and state police to more strictly enforce gun control laws and to exert more regulatory power over weapons dealers, all to stem the flow of guns into Chicago. However, the mother lacks standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, and she cannot show how the regulatory reforms she seeks would translate into reduced gun violence in Chicago.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Gottschall, Filed On: September 5, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv6675, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities - Other - Civil Rights, Categories: Constitution, Class Action, Injunction
J. Coleman grants former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's motion to dismiss a civil rights complaint brought by a right-wing reporter who alleges violations of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The reporter clashed with Lightfoot on numerous occasions, and following a shouting match between the pair at a press conference in July 2022, the Chicago police revoked his press credentials. The case is moot, as Lightfoot is no longer in office, and the reporter has not applied for new press credentials under new Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Also, the reporter's aggressive behavior toward Lightfoot's security team, and not his "tough questions" to the former mayor, were the reason police revoked his credentials.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Coleman, Filed On: September 5, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv4533, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, First Amendment
J. Kennelly denies the airline workers' motion for leave to file an amended complaint against their employer, United Airlines. The workers sued United because they opposed its Covid-19 vaccine and mask mandate for employees, and they brought a dozen different claims. But none of their claims are viable, and they have until Sep. 26 to propose "an amended complaint stating at least one viable claim over which the court has jurisdiction." Otherwise, the case will go to United.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: September 5, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv989 , NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Employment Discrimination, Labor
J. Cummings grants the plaintiff nutrition supplement company's motion for a partial stay of discovery in its Lanham Act case against a defendant nutrition supplement company, pending the resolution of its motion to dismiss the defendant company's procedural counterclaims. The court grants a stay on numerous interrogatories, the deposition of Jennifer Aniston, the celebrity who serves as the plaintiff company's "chief creative officer," and the deposition of Kurt Seidensticker, the plaintiff company's founder and CEO.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: September 1, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv2265, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Trademark, Discovery
J. Jenkins partially grants the Federal Trade Commission's motion for summary judgment on its consumer protection claims against a group of telemarketing companies. The court finds those companies are liable for violating the Commission's Telemarketing Sales Rule for making calls to numbers on the federal Do Not Call List, and for assisting other telemarketing companies in doing the same. However, the court also grants the telemarketing companies' cross-motion for summary judgment on the Federal Trade Commission's claim that they are liable for calls to Do Not Call List numbers placed by their partners at IBT.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: September 1, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv1984, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Consumer Law, Business Practices
J. Seeger mostly denies a group of food companies’ motion to exclude grocers’ testimony from an antitrust trial over egg producers’ alleged scheme to artificially inflate the price of eggs in the U.S. The producers claim that they had fewer eggs to sell domestically in part due to installing larger enclosures for egg-laying hens as part of an animal welfare reform effort, and that grocers themselves urged the producers to install the larger enclosures in response to consumer demand for more humane treatment of farm animals. The food companies claim grocers’ testimony to that effect would be irrelevant and prejudicial, and while the court disagrees generally, it will also rule on the admissibility of any particular deposition on a “line-by-line basis as necessary.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Seeger, Filed On: August 31, 2023, Case #: 1:11cv8808, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: Agriculture, Antitrust, Animal Cruelty
J. Daniel partially grants the Chicago Department of Animal Care and Control’s motion to dismiss employment discrimination and retaliation claims brought by one of its former employees. The former employee was sexually assaulted by one of her coworkers on the job, but said her supervisor was dismissive of her claims and convinced many other workers in the department to turn against her. She eventually quit but not before the Illinois Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued her a right to sue the department on multiple First Amendment, discrimination, whistleblower and retaliation claims. The court dismisses her State Officials and Employees Ethics Act claim in its entirety and part of her First Amendment claim as it relates to a specific HR complaint she made. Her other claims can proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Daniel, Filed On: August 31, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv6777, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment Discrimination, Assault, Employment Retaliation