503 results for 'court:"USDC Northern District of Illinois"'.
J. Durkin grants a class representative’s motion to add a new plaintiff to her privacy class action against her employer, a tortilla manufacturer. The class representative argues the firm illegally recorded and stored her and her co-workers’ fingerprints whenever they scanned their fingers to clock in or our of work, and the court finds the manufacturer has not shown how it would be unduly prejudicial to add a new named plaintiff to the suit.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Durkin, Filed On: July 19, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv3943, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Privacy, Class Action, Labor
J. Cummings partially dismisses a solar energy customer’s contract and fraud counter-claims against a solar energy company which had previously sued the customer for failure to pay for solar panel installation at their car dealership. The solar panels were never installed after the contract negotiations broke down between the parties, and while the court dismisses the customer’s fraud and unjust enrichment claims, their Illinois Credit Services Organizations Act violation claim stands.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: July 17, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv4921, NOS: Negotiable Instrument - Contract, Categories: Fraud, Business Practices, Contract
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J. Aspen grants the plaintiff medical technology company’s motion for an injunction against the defendant medical tech firm and three of the plaintiffs’ former employees, which it poached, barring the sued firm from marketing X-ray tubes it made using the plaintiff’s proprietary information. The court also grants the suing firm over $2.4 million in attorney fees.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Aspen, Filed On: July 13, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv2648, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Trade Secrets, Business Practices, Attorney Fees
J. Seeger partially grants several citizens’ motion for attorney fees in an underlying police misconduct suit, in which they prevailed at a bench trial. The citizens successfully alleged several Harvey city police of searching their home without a warrant, and the court now grants them $394,643 in attorney fees.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Seeger, Filed On: July 13, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv4237, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Attorney Fees, Police Misconduct
J. Kendall grants the Chicago Art Institute’s motion for summary judgment on national discrimination claims brought by a former employee who is a Spanish national. The Spain-born employee helped manage the Institute’s financial capital projects, but her superiors criticized her for a lack of clarity in her communications and eventually fired her. She decried this as an example of discrimination for her status as a non-native English speaker, but the court finds she has offered insufficient evidence to support this claim.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: July 10, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv5105, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Employment Discrimination
J. Bucklo denies the plaintiff laminating company’s motion for summary judgment on patent infringement claims it brings against its competitor, the defendant laminating company. The court also grants the defendant laminating company’s cross-motion for summary judgment on the same claims, finding the plaintiff company has not provided sufficient evidence to show the defendant company violated any patents.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: July 6, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv1833, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Business Practices
J. Jenkins denies the U.S. Postmaster General’s motion for summary judgment on employment discrimination claims brought by a disabled former postal worker. The court finds the worker has adequately alleged that her supervisors at the post office failed to properly accommodate her foot injury, which she received on the job, and that the same superiors conspired to get her fired.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: July 6, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv7406, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Ada / Rehabilitation Act, Employment Discrimination
J. Jenkins grants a television channel’s motion to dismiss a privacy class action, brought by viewers who claim it illegally scraped their video viewing data off of Facebook. The court finds the class of viewers failed to state a claim, as they purchased no service from the television channel and are thus not “consumers” per the Video Privacy Protection Act.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: July 6, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5963, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Privacy, Class Action, Technology
J. Chang enters judgment against a former employee of the Cook County Clerk’s Office, on her claims that she was fired from her position with the office due to her personal connections to an ex-County Recorder of Deeds. The employee claimed her layoff was a violation of the Shakman Decrees, a series of court orders from the 1970s and 80s meant to dismantle Chicago’s legacy of political patronage in public office. The employee claimed County Clerk Karen Yarbrough has built up her own patronage network in the clerk’s office, and that she was fired for being allied with one of Yarbrough’s political rivals. The court, however, found she had not presented a sufficient argument to substantiate this claim against the clerk’s office.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: July 6, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv7497, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Employment Discrimination, Labor
J. Alonso partially grants a snack company’s motion to dismiss a fraud class action in which consumers say they were misled to believe the company’s “smokehouse almonds” were actually smoked when really the almonds are just flavored with liquid smoke. The court denies the class’s motion for injunctive relief, and dismisses its warranty, negligent misrepresentation and fraud claims. Its deceptive practices and unjust enrichment claims proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: July 5, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1591, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Consumer Law, Class Action
J. Jenkins partially grants an Illinois' city's motion for summary judgment on employment discrimination and retaliation claims brought by one of its former employees. That former employee objected to the city converting her finance director position from part-time hourly to full-time salaried, its decision to fire her when she refused to work the longer hours for less money, and its move to outsource its finance department to a private firm. The court dismisses her claims brought under the Equal Protection Clause, the Illinois Human Rights Act and the First Amendment, but allows her gender discrimination, Illinois Whistleblower Act and retaliatory termination claims to proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: June 29, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv2475, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment Discrimination, Whistleblowers, Employment Retaliation
J. Leinenweber partially grants the oil company's motion to dismiss contract claims brought by the convenience store owner over the parties' botched Shell Oil franchising agreement. After the deal fell through, the convenience store owner brought breach of contract, fraud, intentional tort and breach of fiduciary duty claims against the oil company. The court now tosses all of them save a single contract claim.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Leinenweber, Filed On: June 29, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5393, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Interference With Contract, Business Practices, Contract
J. Cummings, as part of an underlying contract suit between sanitation companies, grants defendant sanitation and telematics companies a collective $28,000 in costs and attorneys fees. The fees stem from defendants' work to prosecute a motion to strike a supplemental expert report of plaintiff sanitation company.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: June 27, 2023, Case #: 1:16cv3371, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Attorney Fees, Contract
J. Durkin partially grants a shampoo manufacturer's motion to dismiss fraud and product liability charges brought by a class of consumers who claim its dry shampoo products contain high levels of the carcinogen benzene. The class' claims that the company misrepresented its products' toxicity are dismissed, as the dry shampoo products don't "expressly" state any safety concerns related to benzene one way or another. The class' unjust enrichment claims, however, stand.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Durkin, Filed On: June 27, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv6728, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Product Liability, Class Action
J. Shah grants Microsoft’s motion to compel arbitration in a Biometric Information Privacy Act case brought against it by two Uber drivers. The drivers sued the tech giant over Uber using its facial recognition to collect their facial geometry without their consent as part of the rideshare company’s “real time ID check” system. The drivers are bound by an arbitration clause in their contract with Uber, and as Microsoft is a third-party beneficiary of that contract, the court agrees their claims against it must also go to arbitration.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Shah, Filed On: June 26, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv3229, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Arbitration, Privacy, Business Practices
J. Jenkins denies the Chicago Park District’s motion to dismiss civil rights violations claims brought by four gay soccer fans. The fans attended the 2019 Gold Cup final between the U.S. and Mexico at Chicago’s Soldier Field, where they say they were mocked by Mexico fans chanting “Eh puto!” — “puto” being a Spanish vulgarity sometimes used to refer to gay men and male prostitutes. The fans allege the Chicago Park District and Soldier Field personnel did not enforce their own anti-discrimination policies on the Mexico fans, and the court finds there are still too many factual controversies to make dismissal appropriate. The court also rejects the park district’s argument that it is shielded from liability under the Illinois Tort Immunity Act.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: June 22, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv5581, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Tort, Emotional Distress
J. Kendall partially grants an insurance company’s motions to dismiss, sever and transfer insurance class action claims brought by a class of motorists in 47 states who totaled their vehicles and then claim to have been defrauded by the company’s negotiation policies. The court severs several of the claims and transfers a handful of others to out-of-state federal districts, but otherwise denies the dismissal motions.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: June 21, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1422, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Fraud, Insurance, Class Action