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J. Ellis denies a motion for summary judgment from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, on failure to accommodate claims brought by a former employee of the VA. The court finds the employee has reasonably alleged that the VA failed to accommodate her multiple sclerosis by when it didn’t provide her with an ergonomic office chair and keyboard. However, in exchange for allowing these claims to proceed, the former employee voluntarily dismisses her age and race discrimination claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Ellis, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv865, NOS: Housing/Accommodations - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Veterans, Employment Discrimination
J. Kendall partially denies a bitcoin mining rig manufacturer’s motion to dismiss contract and fraud claims brought against it by bitcoin miners unhappy with its products. The court finds, despite the manufacturer’s assertion otherwise, that it does have subject-matter jurisdiction over the case. However, the court also construes the manufacturer’s claim of improper venue as a motion to compel arbitration and grants it.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv7121, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Arbitration, Fraud, Contract
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J. Shah partially grants a group of Chicago police officers’ motions for summary judgment on malicious prosecution, conspiracy and intentional tort claims, brought by a man wrongfully imprisoned by almost three decades. The police in question framed the man for a 1991 murder by planting false evidence and coercing his confession, and he was only released on an overturned conviction in 2018. The court grants judgment to several individual officers who have not been sufficiently tied to the framing, but the counts stand against the rest.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Shah, Filed On: May 22, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv2204, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Malicious Prosecution, Police Misconduct
J. Shah partially grants a medical services consultant company’s motion to dismiss fraud claims, brought by a sports medicine center that received an unsolicited fax for a Covid-19 aftercare seminar from the company. The court dismisses the sports medicine center’s state law fraud claims, but allows its Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims to proceed. The court also denies the sports medicine center’s motion to strike the consultant company’s affirmative defenses.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Shah, Filed On: May 22, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv4198, NOS: Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Consumer Law, Privacy
J. Kennelly denies Chicago’s motion for summary judgment on civil rights claims brought by a gay city firefighter. The firefighter alleges he has been subject to homophobic intimidation by his straight coworkers in the fire department, including having gay porn taped to his locker, and that he was regularly sexually harassed by his female superior when he was working in the CFD’s administrative office. The court finds he has sufficiently alleged these claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: May 18, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv2562, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Emotional Distress, Employment Discrimination
J. Pacold partially grants an LGBTQ event planning organization’s motion for a preliminary injunction against a northern Illinois city, striking a city rule that would clear it of liability for the 2023 Aurora Pride Parade. The injunction also bars the city from charging the parade organizers for the cost of police services at the event. In the underlying First Amendment case, the LGBTQ organization claims the city revoked its event permit leading up to the 2022 Pride Parade in retaliation for the decision not to allow uniformed cops to march in the parade. The city then reinstated the permit at the last minute, but stuck the organization with the bill for police security hours at three times the normal hourly rate.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Pacold, Filed On: May 18, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv259, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Police Misconduct, Injunction
J. Kennelly partially grants the Chicago public school board’s motion for summary judgment and denies a former student’s motion for summary judgment in this case over compulsory meditation training. The former student says his teachers forced him to sign up for a class on Transcendental Meditation against his will, and didn’t tell him that Transcendental Meditation had links to Hindu spiritual traditions. The court finds the former student has not sufficiently shown that his religious expression rights were infringed upon, so it grants the school board summary judgment on that claim. The former student’s emotional damages and establishment clause claims survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: May 16, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv4540, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Damages, First Amendment
J. Kocoras denies a gypsum cement manufacturer’s motion to strike a flooring product manufacturer’s affirmative defenses in this contract dispute, but partially grants its motion to dismiss the flooring product manufacturer’s counterclaims. The court dismisses the flooring product manufacturer’s counterclaims for bad faith dealing, unfair competition and Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act violations. The rest of the claims, including a federal fraud claim, survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: May 16, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv268, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Fraud, Unfair Competition, Contract
J. Kocoras partially grants the defendant group of real estate developers’ motion to dismiss a RICO suit brought by one of its former financial managers. The former manager claims the developers used a number of business maneuvers to swindle him out of at least $500,000 while he was in the process of retiring. The court dismisses the former manager’s claims against some of the individual developers, but not all of them.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: May 16, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv5013, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Interference With Contract, Business Practices, Racketeering
J. Rowland partially grants the defendant machine shop’s motion for summary judgment while denying the plaintiff machine shop’s cross-motion for summary judgment in this case over military-compliant fasteners. The plaintiff shop claims the defendant shop violated trademark laws by buying plaintiff’s fasteners, altering them and selling them to its customers as compliant with military specifications. The court grants the defendant shop’s claim for summary judgement as to the “word marks,” i.e., the plaintiff shops’ brand identifiers, which are present on the defendant’s fasteners, as the plaintiff has not sufficiently explained why those marks cannot appear on the fasteners when they are meant for military and not commercial use. All other claims from all parties survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Rowland, Filed On: May 15, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv6670, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: Commerce, Trademark, Business Practices
J. McShain denies the sued lightbulb manufacturer’s motion to compel discovery, as well as its motion for sanctions, in this patent case brought by a competitor. The court finds the motion to compel is untimely, given that this case has been running since 2013, and finds no evidence that the suing manufacturer has acted with the kind of bad faith that would necessitate sanctions.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: McShain, Filed On: May 12, 2023, Case #: 1:13cv9339, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Sanctions, Discovery
J. Valderrama partially grants a medical center’s summary judgment on medical malpractice and negligence claims, brought by the parents of a severely mentally disabled child. The parents say the child’s disabilities, including hypoglycemic encephalopathy, cerebral palsy and seizure disorder, were caused by the medical center’s staff botching the child’s delivery. The parents’ claims against the individual doctor who performed the delivery survive, but the center’s medical group as a whole is dismissed from the suit.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Valderrama, Filed On: May 11, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv8496, NOS: Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Negligence, Agency, Medical Malpractice
J. Fuentes partially grants a Chicago police officer’s motion to compel discovery in her case against the city and her former superior on the police force. The superior assigned the officer to guard the block where his house is located for six straight nights amid the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, which she says was retaliation for her having criticized his prior actions. The officer seeks access to 107 withheld police documents, and the court goes through each of them to determine which she will be allowed to see.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Fuentes, Filed On: May 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1084, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Discovery, Employment Retaliation, Police Misconduct
J. Jenkins declines ruling on a retail chain’s motions to dismiss a product liability and warranty class action regarding a trash can sold at Target, and to strike a proposed class. The court has identified deficiencies in both parties’ filings that make ruling inappropriate. Both parties will be given a chance to rectify these issues, and if they fail to do so, the case will be remanded to Cook County Circuit Court.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: May 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv4700, NOS: Personal Injury - Product Liability - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Product Liability, Warranty, Class Action
J. Jenkins grants a beauty company’s motion to remand an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class action to Cook County Circuit Court. The court finds the proposed class of individuals, who had their facial geometry stolen via the beauty company’s “virtual try on” tool, have not shown they suffered the requisite $5 million in damages necessary to justify a federal suit under the Class Action Fairness Act.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: May 11, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv94, NOS: Other Labor Litigation - Labor, Categories: Civil Procedure, Privacy, Class Action