10 results for 'judge:"Cummings"'.
J. Cummings partially grants an auto body shop’s motion for summary judgment on a former employee’s discrimination claims. The former employee claims she faced discrimination at work on the basis of her pregnancy, and was eventually fired. The court finds the former employee has abandoned her hostile work environment claim, as she did not respond to the auto shop’s argument against it, but allows the rest of her allegations to go forward.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv2524, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Vehicle, Employment Discrimination
J. Cummings partially grants a real estate crowdfunding platform and payroll management company’s motions to compel arbitration in an employment suit brought by one of the platform’s former executives. The former executive claims the defendants owe her the bonuses she earned in 2022, along with 90 days’ notice wages. The defendants moved for arbitration on her wage claims. The court finds arbitration is appropriate for the former executive’s dispute with the payroll management company, and stays the underlying claims against the real estate platform while that arbitration is pending.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: February 22, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv4120, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Arbitration, Employment, Contract
J. Cummings denies a motion from the Cook County sheriff and several county correctional officers, who wanted to stay a civil lawsuit brought by a county jail inmate until he’s faced trial for aggravated battery charges. The inmate claims three correctional officers beat him in a jail elevator without security cameras; he further alleged the practice is widespread among correctional officers, and that Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart knew about it but turned a blind eye. The court declines to issue a stay because nothing in the inmate’s civil complaint would undermine the criminal prosecution he faces.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: November 17, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv6243, NOS: Prison Condition - Habeas Corpus, Categories: Civil Procedure, Police Misconduct, Prisoners' Rights
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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. 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. 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
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