11 results for 'judge:"Chang"'.
J. Chang grants a Ford customer’s motion to consolidate his proposed consumer class action with another similar suit, but also grants Ford’s motion to transfer this case to the Eastern District of Michigan. The customer alleges Ford knowingly sold vehicles with faulty backup cameras, and that even following a recall, his own vehicle’s camera remained unrepaired. The court finds this case and another are sufficiently similar to warrant consolidation, but that Michigan, as the district where the cameras were manufactured, is the more appropriate venue.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv14027, NOS: Contract Product Liability - Contract, Categories: Product Liability, Venue, Class Action
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. Chang partially grants the sued law firm and former trucking business manager’s motions to dismiss and strike a fraud suit brought by the trucking business manager’s father. The father says his son and the law firm boxed him out of the proceeds he was due from his son selling the business, which he founded, in 2018. The court allows the father’s fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment claims to stand, but grants the son’s motion to strike his father’s claim for attorney fees.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: September 30, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv3760, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Business Practices, Attorney Fees
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J. Chang partially grants multiple Chicago-area law enforcement officials’ motion for summary judgment on a wrongfully convicted man’s civil rights case. The man spent over 16 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit after Chicago police fabricated evidence against him. After his conviction was finally vacated the man brought numerous counts not just against the police who worked to put him in jail, but against Chicago, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Cook County Sheriff Department and all others who allowed the police to get away with the framing. In the interests of encouraging the parties to settle, the court fully dismisses all claims against several individual police, while allowing other claims for conspiracy, fabrication, malicious prosecution, infliction of emotional distress and indemnification to stand against the city, county and several individual police and higher-ranking law enforcement officials.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: September 30, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv8144, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Malicious Prosecution, Emotional Distress, Police Misconduct
J. Chang grants an electronic trading platform’s motion to dismiss a stock trader’s tort claims, and also grants its countermotion for the confirmation of an arbitration award against the trader. The trader claims the trading platform liquidated his trading positions worth over $202,000 without authorization, but an arbitration proceeding between the parties, carried out by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, decided in favor of the platform. The court backs up that finding and confirms the platform’s arbitration award.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: September 29, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv6434, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Arbitration, Trade, Tort
J. Chang partially grants a physical therapy agency's motion to dismiss an insurance company's fraud and securities violation claims. The insurance company claims the therapy agency's buy-out by a financial acquisition company cost investors millions when, only after the merger was complete, the agency and acquisitions company disclosed poor profit projections related to "physical-therapist attrition rates." The court dissects each of the insurance company's claims very particularly, dismissing them in part against individual actors in the therapy agency and acquisitions company, but allowing the claims against other individuals to survive.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: September 6, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv4349, NOS: Securities/Commodities/Exchange - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Insurance, Securities
J. Chang grants an insurance policyholder’s motion for a declaration that this insurance dispute, over whether and what amount of coverage an insurance company owes the policyholder for his property’s ice damage, is best settled via an appraisal process.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: August 28, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv905, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: Insurance, Damages, Contract
J. Chang enters judgment against a former employee of the Cook County Clerk’s Office, on her claims that she was fired from her position with the office due to her personal connections to an ex-County Recorder of Deeds. The employee claimed her layoff was a violation of the Shakman Decrees, a series of court orders from the 1970s and 80s meant to dismantle Chicago’s legacy of political patronage in public office. The employee claimed County Clerk Karen Yarbrough has built up her own patronage network in the clerk’s office, and that she was fired for being allied with one of Yarbrough’s political rivals. The court, however, found she had not presented a sufficient argument to substantiate this claim against the clerk’s office.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: July 6, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv7497, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Employment Discrimination, Labor
J. Chang grants the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office its motion to dismiss constitutionality claims brought by the former treasurer of Cook County’s Sauk Village. The office ousted the treasurer from his position after learning he had two drug felony convictions from 1988 and 1998, and later filed suit to bar him from his subsequent attempts to hold office in the village. The former treasurer then filed suit against the state’s attorney’s office, arguing the state statutes which bar those with felony convictions from holding public office violate the Eighth Amendment. The court finds these claims without merit, and that the former treasurer has also failed to show how his claims should trump the office’s sovereign immunity.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Chang, Filed On: June 21, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5314, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Constitution, Government