18 results for 'judge:"Alonso"'.
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. Alonso grants Johnson & Johnson’s motion for summary judgment, and denies the suing plastic container manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment, on the question of whether Johnson & Johnson’s “Ziploc Endurables” products infringe on the plaintiff’s own line of silicone food containers and the method for creating them. The court finds Ziploc Endurables infringe on neither patent.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv5028, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Technology
J. Alonso partially grants UPS’s motion for summary judgment on retaliation and sex & disability discrimination claims brought by one of its human resources managerial employees. The manager claims UPS didn’t provide her necessary accommodations to express breast milk at work, retaliated against her for taking maternity leave and for filing and filing an EEOC complaint, and passed her over for promotion. The court finds she has not sufficiently alleged her claim under the FMLA, nor her retaliation claim related to her maternity leave. Her remaining claims stand.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: February 29, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv3506, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Alonso grants an insurance company’s motion for reconsideration of a prior judgment, and denies a condiment packaging company’s motion for relief from a prior judgment. This case stems from an underlying Biometric Information Privacy Act class action the condiment company’s employees brought against it in 2021. The company argued the insurance company was obliged to indemnify it in this suit; the insurance company denied that obligation and sought a declaratory judgment from the court to back up its denial. The court previously declined to rule in favor of the insurance company, but on reconsideration now rules it has no duty to indemnify the condiment firm.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: February 27, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1334, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Insurance, Privacy, Indemnification
J. Alonso partially grants an almond company’s motion for judgment in a prospective nationwide consumer class action. The prospective class representative alleges she was defrauded by the company’s “smokehouse” brand of almonds because the nuts are flavored with liquid smoke, not in an actual smokehouse. The court dismisses the consumer fraud claims brought under Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming law, but allows the claims brought under Illinois and several other states’ laws to stand.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: February 22, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1591, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Consumer Law, Class Action
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J. Alonso partially grants a physical therapy provider’s motion to dismiss RICO claims brought by two former patients. The patients claim the provider charged them the “full, rack-rate cost of services, instead of the insurance-negotiated rates they are contractually obligated to charge.” The court finds the patients have not sufficiently alleged racketeering claims or Illinois law fraud claims. One of the patient’s additional claims under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act stands, as do both patients unjust enrichment claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: January 26, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1181, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Health Care, Racketeering
J. Alonso alternatingly grants and denies multiple parties’ motions for summary judgment in this dispute over the plaintiff trucking company’s trade secrets. The company uses the password-protected “Sylectus” software program to make bookings and maintain customer relations. The company claims several of its employees, led by a former manager, used confidential data in the Sylectus system to jump start their own competing freight company and pull in almost $3.5 million in ill-gotten revenue. The company brought multiple trade secret misappropriation, fraud, breach of loyalty and conspiracy charges against the former employees and the new competitor, but the court found that only the breach of loyalty count against the former manager has been sufficiently alleged. The court dismisses all other defendants from the suit, while also granting the manager’s motion to bar certain expert testimony, denying the company’s motion to seal certain documents, and placing sanctions on the manager for deleting certain Dropbox files that can no longer be used as evidence in the company’s case.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: January 18, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv2903, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: Employment, Sanctions, Trade Secrets
J. Alonso grants the suing parent’s petition for the defendant parent to return a minor child to Germany. The individuals are former domestic partners — the plaintiff European, the defendant American — who had the minor child together, but separated soon after. The American defendant eventually committed domestic battery against the European plaintiff; successive custody battles over the child ensued. In this particular round, the European individual has a legal right under the Hague Convention to demand the child be returned to Germany.`
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: December 13, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv5017, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Family Law, International Law
J. Alonso grants a collection of real estate and investment firms' motion to dismiss a pair of apartment renters' 18 claims against them, including race discrimination, extortion and multiple counts of fraud. The pair claim the firms swindled them into renting a filthy, run-down apartment, for which they charged the pair three months' rent up front. The case is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and improper venue.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv4324, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Jurisdiction, Venue
J. Alonso partially grants a tampon manufacturer's motion to dismiss a consumer class action that claims the company's Tampax product falsely asserts that its components are made from cotton and that it uses plant-based applicators instead of oil-based plastic applicators. The class has sufficiently alleged its deceptive practices, unfair practices and warranty claims, but not its negligent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, or common-law fraud claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: September 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5036 , NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Warranty, Class Action
J. Alonso grants a nutrition company’s motion to strike consumer class allegations and partially grants the company’s motion to dismiss the would-be class representative’s fraud claims. The nutrition company marketed its Think! protein bars as containing no artificial sweeteners, despite containing maltitol syrup, an artificial sweetener. The class rep consumer brought multiple fraud claims as well as nationwide class claims under the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act. But the court finds the ICFA does not apply to consumers outside Illinois, and also finds that the individual fraud claims are incongruous with multiple states’ differing fraud laws. However, it allows the class representative’s unjust enrichment claims to proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: August 31, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv933, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Consumer Law, Class Action
J. Alonso partially grants an insurance company’s motion for summary judgment, and denies a food company’s cross-motion for summary judgment, on the insurance company’s claims that it owes no duty to defend or cover the food company in an underlying biometric privacy class action. The court finds that the insurance company has no duty to defend the food company only regarding on the underlying complaint’s breach of contract claims. Factual disputes bar summary judgment on the other claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: July 31, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1334, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Insurance, Class Action, Contract
J. Alonso denies a plastic packaging manufacturer’s motion to dismiss its former chief financial officer’s claims for age and gender discrimination and wrongful termination. The former CFO of the manufacturer claims she was never offered stock options or a severance agreement like her male colleagues, that her pay was only equalized with the men after she complained multiple times about the discrepancy, and that she was ultimately fired to make way for a much younger CFO. The former CFO has shown adequate standing to make her claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: July 19, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv3726, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Employment, Employment Discrimination
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. Alonso enters judgment in favor of the Chicago Cubs on allegations that Wrigley Field lacks sufficient disability-accessible seating. The case was brought by a disabled Cubs fan whose favorite seating area was demolished as part of Wrigley Field’s recent “1060 Project” renovations, in order to make room for a new bar. Despite the loss of that seating area, the court finds that Wrigley Field has as least 210 disability-accessible seats, one more than it is minimally required to have under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Alonso, Filed On: June 21, 2023, Case #: 1:17cv9023, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities - Other - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Ada / Rehabilitation Act