15 results for 'judge:"Kocoras"'.
J. Kocoras partially grants and partially denies both groups of window and curtain companies’ motions for summary judgment on the plaintiff companies’ patent claims against the defendants. The plaintiff companies alleges the defendant companies are infringing on their patents for a curtain wall system used for facades in high-rise buildings, which the defendants contest. The court splits the opposing motions for summary judgment; finding the defendants have not infringed on certain elements of the system but have infringed on others.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: April 9, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv6618, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Construction, Patent, Technology
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. Kocoras grants the University of California, Berkeley engineering department motion for summary judgment, and partially grants the sued data analytics platform’s motion for summary judgment, on the university’s claims that the defendant infringed on its patents for programs designed to calculate object level profitability. The court mostly finds in the university’s favor in the patent dispute, but finds in the platform’s favor on the university’s claim that the platform induced infringement by encouraging its customers to use the university’s programs.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: 1:17cv7472, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Education, Patent
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J. Kocoras denies Chicago and its police officers’ motion for summary judgment on a resident’s claims of unreasonable seizure, false arrest, and malicious prosecution, finding the resident has sufficiently alleged that police entered his home without a warrant and arrested him without probable cause.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: February 15, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1564, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Malicious Prosecution, Police Misconduct
J. Kocoras grants a real estate company’s motion to sever for one of the five individual former employees claims for improper joinder. The company request to sever the claims into individual actions, arguing they are not the same transaction or occurrence. The one employee is granted leave to amend her complaint because her claims do not come from the same series of transaction or occurrence as the others. The motion on the other four employees is denied without prejudice and they fail to establish the claims are properly joined. Therefore, the four remaining employees can file an amended complaint.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: November 2, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv3237, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment
J. Kocoras denies both a meatpacking company’s motion to dismiss its employees’ labor claims against it, and the employees’ motion to certify a class. The named employees claim the company underpaid them for their work hours during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the court finds they have sufficiently alleged their charges to pursue them on an individual basis, it finds many of their proposed class members were made aware of a settlement in another, nearly identical case but declined to opt in. Including those who declined the first settlement in a new class, the court opines, would be a waste of judicial resources.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: August 22, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1937, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Class Action, Labor
J. Kocoras partially grants the defendant insurance company’s motion for summary judgment on defamation, damages and intentional tort claims brought by the plaintiff insurance broker. The company blamed the broker for failing to add one of its trucking company clients’ trucks to a list of insured vehicles, leading to internal financial and legal disputes as to whose fault it was that the truck wasn’t properly insured after it was in an accident. One of the broker’s experts later claimed that the insurance company’s accusation reduced the broker’s sale price to a larger insurance group by $1.1 million. The court finds factual disputes make summary judgment on the broker’s defamation and intentional tort claims inappropriate, but it partially grants the insurance company’s motion to toss the broker’s damages claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: August 15, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv3188, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Insurance, Tort, Damages
J. Kocoras partially grants the defendant golf glove manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment on contract and unjust enrichment claims brought against it by the plaintiff golf accessory company. A prior contract between the two parties, for the manufacturer to produce gloves for the accessory company, fell through in 2019. The court sides with the manufacturer as to the accessory company’s trade secret misappropriation claim, but allows its contract breach, unjust enrichment and tortious interference claims to proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kocoras, Filed On: June 2, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv70, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Trade Secrets, Tort, Contract
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