12 results for 'judge:"Bucklo"'.
J. Bucklo rules on 20 separate motions in limine from a parent who says Chicago public school officials beat her son, and on nine separate motions in limine from the public school system itself, as the case moves closer to a possible trial.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: February 15, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv775, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Civil Procedure, Education, Emotional Distress
J. Bucklo partially grants a former tobacco shop cashier’s motion for expedited jurisdictional discovery. The cashier’s supervisor fired him and a coworker on the suspicion that they stole from the shop’s register, in response to which the cashier filed this lawsuit alleging retaliation, slander, wage law violations and Fair Labor Standards Act violations against the tobacco shop’s owner. The court grants the motion for expedited discovery as it relates to the police reports the shop’s owner has filed in the last three years, job applicant records and other documents, but it denies his motion as it relates to the shop owner’s record of property ownership, phone records and credit card sales.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv7805, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Employment, Jurisdiction, Discovery
J. Bucklo grants the sued industrial equipment manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment on the suing auto part manufacturer’s warranty claim against it, and also grants its motions to exclude expert testimony and to strike an affidavit from the auto part manufacturer’s CEO. The auto part manufacturer claims it bought machinery from the defendant meant to automate cutting sheet metal, but that the equipment proved faulty and failed after its manufacturer ignored the issues for over a year and a half. However, the court finds that the plaintiff’s warranty claim is insufficient as it “offered no admissible evidence to establish its damages.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: January 5, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv1996, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Business Practices, Warranty, Contract
J. Bucklo grants the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s motion to dismiss a counterclaim brought against it by a credit reporting agency and one of its top executives. The Bureau sued the agency in April 2022 for allegedly grifting its customers; surreptitiously enrolling them in subscription services that were difficult to cancel. The agency and executive subsequently raised a counterclaim arguing they were due a residual redress payment of over $5 million, as well as a dozen affirmative defenses each. The court finds the counterclaim does not address the issues over which the Bureau is bringing suit, and dismisses all but five of the defendants’ collective 24 affirmative defenses as “legally insufficient or improper.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: November 9, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1880, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Commerce, Fraud, Business Practices
J. Bucklo grants an exotic dancer’s motion to dismiss breach of contract and specific performance counterclaims, which her former employer, a strip club, has brought against her. The court also denies the strip club’s motion to remove the exotic dancer as the representative of the putative class pursuing this labor action against it. The dancer, speaking for her class, claims the club wrongly classifies its workers as contractors rather than employees in order to deny them fair pay and benefits, and forces them to hand over a portion of the tips they earn on the job. The club countered that the dancers breached their contracts by failing to accurately record all their tips, but the court finds the club has not shown it has suffered any material harm from this alleged omission. The court also finds the club has not put forward a sufficient reason to exclude the dancer as her class representative.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: October 13, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv5321, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Class Action, Labor
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J. Bucklo partially grants Microsoft’s motion to dismiss a biometric privacy class action. A sales worker claims his employer captured his facial data via video data he uploaded to an application using Microsoft software, and brought multiple counts under four subsections of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The worker’s claim under section 15(a) claim stands, but the court dismisses his 15(b) and (d) claims without prejudice for failure to state a claim.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: August 21, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv695, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Employment, Privacy, Class Action
J. Bucklo grants Ford's motion to dismiss the claims of a named plaintiff in this product liability suit, as punishment for the named plaintiff spoliating evidence. Specifically, the named plaintiff traded in his Ford F-150 vehicle in October 2021 before his lease ended and without alerting Ford’s attorneys. As this class action case is about Ford allegedly selling and leasing F-150 trucks with faulty transmissions, and the plaintiff’s truck was a piece of evidence relevant to the case, the court finds that dismissing the plaintiff from the suit is a reasonable form of sanctions.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: July 20, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv5045, NOS: Property Damage Product Liability - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Sanctions, Product Liability, Class Action
J. Bucklo denies the plaintiff laminating company’s motion for summary judgment on patent infringement claims it brings against its competitor, the defendant laminating company. The court also grants the defendant laminating company’s cross-motion for summary judgment on the same claims, finding the plaintiff company has not provided sufficient evidence to show the defendant company violated any patents.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: July 6, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv1833, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, Business Practices
J. Bucklo partially grants an Illinois city’s motion for summary judgment on employment discrimination claims brought by one of its Black former police officers. The former officer claims he was regularly passed over for promotion in lieu of his younger, white colleagues, and that he was retaliated against in numerous ways, then eventually fired, after he complained to the city’s HR Department that a white officer had compared him to a stereotypical Black character on a TV show. The court finds the former officer has not persuasively argued his discrimination claims, but allows his retaliation claims to proceed.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Bucklo, Filed On: June 9, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv2939, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation, Police Misconduct