510 results for 'court:"USDC Northern District of Illinois"'.
J. Durkin grants T-Mobile’s motion to certify an interlocutory appeal over whether a putative consumer class has sufficiently alleged antitrust standing. The putative class opposes the now-closed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint and seeks, via this suit against T-Mobile’s parent company, to unwind the merger and prevent T-Mobile from having a monopoly over U.S. wireless services.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Durkin, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv3189, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: Antitrust, Class Action, Technology
J. Pallmeyer denies an insurance agency association’s motion for summary judgment, but grants the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s cross-motion for summary judgment, in this decade-old suit over whether insurers can be sued under the Fair Housing Act for making policy decisions based on risk that disparately impact people of color and other marginalized groups. A decade ago, the Housing Department decided insurers should face that legal liability, a decision insurers called “capricious” and the court found warranted further analysis. The Housing Department made the same decision last year, but this time it sufficiently backed up its conclusion to address the court’s concerns.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Pallmeyer, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 1:13cv8564, NOS: Administrative Procedure Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision - Other Suits, Categories: Administrative Law, Insurance, Equal Protection
J. Kendall partially grants a food company’s motion to dismiss a consumer fraud class action. A class of consumers sued the food company after they bought its “Certified Sustainably Sourced” fish products, only to discover that the company employed a non-ecofriendly “pelagic trawl” fishing method that indiscriminately captures everything in the path of a net the size of two football fields. The court will allow the class’s fraud and state-level claims to move forward, but denies their motion for an injunction against the company’s unsustainable fishing practices. The court argues that because the class is now aware the company’s fish is unsustainably sourced, “any future harm is too speculative to support standing for injunctive relief.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv1298, NOS: Contract Product Liability - Contract, Categories: Environment, Fraud, Class Action
Want access to unlimited case records and advanced research tools? Create your free CasePortal account now. No credit card required to register.
Try CasePortal for Free
J. Chang partially grants a genetic screening company’s motion to dismiss fraud and negligence claims brought by a couple who used its services before having a child. The couple used the company’s prenatal genetic screening test to check if their child would have Down syndrome, and though the test returned a negative result, their child with born with Down syndrome anyway. The court dismisses the couple’s negligence claim against the company but allows their fraud claims to move forward.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv3085, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Fraud, Health Care, Negligence
J. Pacold grants an American telecommunication company’s motion to open contempt proceedings on the Chinese telecommunications firm it is suing. The court opens contempt proceedings over the Chinese firm’s refusal to pay the American company royalties on a series of radios. The Chinese firm rejects the claim that its radios violate any trade secrets or copyrights of the American company. A jury concluded it had infringed on other copyrights held by the American company in a 3.5-month trial that concluded in February 2020, but that trial didn’t cover the radio products at issue here. The same jury ordered the Chinese firm to pay the American company over $543 million in royalties. While contempt proceedings are open, the court also forbids the Chinese company from pursuing a separate litigation against the American company in China in order to “protect [its] jurisdiction.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Pacold, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 1:17cv1973, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Copyright, International Law, Technology
J. Kendall grants an animal medicine manufacturer’s motion to transfer this sex discrimination and employment retaliation suit to the the District of North Texas. The court finds that many relevant events in the case occurred in Texas, and most of the non-party witnesses live there, making venue transfer appropriate.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: March 25, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv5273, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Venue, Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Jenkins partially grants the defendant isobutane manufacturer’s motion to dismiss a pharmaceutical company’s breach of contract, breach of warranty, negligence and product liability claims. The isobutane manufacturer produces a component used in the pharma company’s antifungal spray, and now the pharma company accuses the manufacturer of contaminating that component with benzene. The court allows most of the pharma company’s claims to stand but dismisses its negligence and strict liability claims, finding they are barred by the economic loss doctrine.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: March 24, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv4391, NOS: Contract Product Liability - Contract, Categories: Product Liability, Warranty, Contract
J. Durkin denies a group of former tech executives’ motion for acquittal or new trial, finding there is sufficient evidence to support the jury’s verdict. Jurors found the tech executives guilty of more than a dozen fraud counts each in April 2023, after hearing evidence that they falsified financial reports, underreported consumer engagement with the medication ads that pharma companies paid them to market and charged clients for advertising services that they never delivered.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Durkin, Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 1:19cr864, NOS: Other - Forfeiture/Penalty, Categories: Fraud, Technology
J. Gilbert partially grants a number of the sued retailers’ motions for fees and fee itemization. The court orders a monster truck manufacturer, as part of the underlying trademark suits, to pay the defendants more than $14,000 in fees.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Gilbert, Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv6758, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: Trademark, Attorney Fees
J. Maldonado denies a home owner’s motion to amend their long-delayed RICO complaint against a bank and assorted real estate interests, and furthermore dismisses the complaint for lack of jurisdiction. The court finds it lacks jurisdiction over some of the real estate interests, and that there’s little indication the home owner's amended complaint would address the generally unactionable allegations of the complaint currently before the court.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Maldonado, Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 1:15cv10610, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Real Estate, Jurisdiction, Racketeering
J. Tharp partially grants a health care networking service’s motion to compel the production of documents from a number of pharmacies. The pharmacies allege the health care networking service has an illegal monopoly over e-prescription routing and patient eligibility transmission. The court compels the pharmacies to produce sales records of prescription medications to Michigan patients, but declines the networking service’s request for the pharmacies to produce a privilege log.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Tharp, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv6627, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: Antitrust, Health Care, Discovery
J. Tharp grants a pro se litigant’s motion to dismiss and amend his complaint against Aurora, several police officers and members of state and local governments. The litigant, a Black man, believes he was unfairly targeted for a traffic stop by Aurora police and brought suit in parallel to his unsuccessful fight against the traffic citations. The court finds numerous deficiencies with his complaint as it stands, so will allow him to refile it with improvements to several claims. Other claims are so frivolous, the court opines, that they are dismissed outright with prejudice.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Tharp, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv2549, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Vehicle
J. Rowland partially grants both a commuter rail service’s and a construction company’s motions for summary judgment on damage claims. This case is a contract dispute between the parties over a rail replacement project that the commuter rail paid the construction company to undertake. The construction company finished the project long after its contractual deadline, but it alleges that the delay was partly the commuter rail service’s own fault. The court will allow the commuter rail service to seek damages for structural steel storage, crosshole sonic logging testing, field office credit, additional review and subcontractor mechanic liens. The construction company can pursue damages for late payments plus interest.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Rowland, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv2901, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Construction, Damages, Contract
J. Daniel partially grants Loyola University’s motion to dismiss a Title IX suit brought by a group of students who say the university mishandled and underreported their claims of sexual harassment on campus. The students’ complaint also accuses the university of failing to prevent sexual assault by repeat offenders and publishing false campus sexual assault statistics, and brings claims for fraud, premises liability, contract breach, negligence, emotional distress and violations of the Illinois Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act. The court dismisses all of these counts as well as a Jane Doe’s Title IX claims, citing, among other arguments, a lack of evidence and failure to state a claim. The remaining plaintiffs’ Title IX claims survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Daniel, Filed On: March 18, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv6476, NOS: Education - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, Emotional Distress
J. Jenkins partially grants the suing personal protective equipment manufacturer’s motion to dismiss the defendant capital investment firm’s counterclaims, brought as part of an ongoing contract dispute between the parties. Both parties accuse the other, in various ways, of ruining a deal between them to make and sell personal protective equipment during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. In response to the manufacturer’s lawsuit and refusal to hand over $8 million in profits, the capital investment firm brought counterclaims for contract breach, conversion, accounting and violations of the Illinois Sales Representative Act. The court strikes the investment firm’s accounting claim and several affirmative defenses, and dismisses its conversion and Illinois Sales Representative Act violation claim. It may still pursue damages against the manufacturer in a limited capacity.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jenkins, Filed On: March 18, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv1094, NOS: Constitutionality of State Statutes - Other Suits, Categories: Damages, Accounting Malpractice, Contract
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. Alonso partially grants motions from and Chicago and several Chicago police for summary judgment on extensive police misconduct claims brought by a man who spent almost a decade in jail for bogus drug dealing charges. The man claims the police falsely arrested him, fabricated evidence against him, suppressed evidence and conspired to ensure he went to jail, and holds Chicago responsible for fostering a toxic police culture that allowed the individual defendants to get away with their misdeeds. The court, however, dismisses the man’s false arrest, concealment of evidence, conspiracy, failure to intervene and respondeat superior claims for various reasons, ranging from claims being time-barred to lack of evidence. The man’s claim for fabrication of evidence is also dismissed as to one member of the police force, but stands for the rest of them. His indemnification claim against Chicago also stands.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: March 15, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv5886, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Malicious Prosecution, Indemnification, Police Misconduct
J. Hunt grants the suing boiler-leasing company’s motion to dismiss the defendant power plant operator’s counterclaims of fraud. The boiler company sued the plant operator after the plant operator returned one of its leased boilers in damaged condition; the operator in turn claimed the boiler was never in as good of condition as the boiler company claimed. The court finds the power plant operator has failed to sufficiently back up its fraud counterclaims, and dismisses them with prejudice.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Hunt, Filed On: March 14, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv1353, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Fraud, Property, Contract