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• Appeal time limit causes court error

  19-09-2018 07:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  Unanimously reversing a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed as tardy Charmaine Hamer’s appeal in her employment discrimination case against Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago and Fannie Mae, the U.S. Supreme Court explained that the 7th Circuit “tripped over our statement [...] that the taking of an appeal within the prescribed time is mandatory and jurisdictional.”
  
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• Panel won’t revive consumer fraud suit against ComEd

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  ComEd and its parent company do not have to face a lawsuit alleging that its bribery of associates of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan caused its customers to pay higher fees.
  
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• Iowa Supreme Court blocks testimony about business records

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  In a case where prosecutors relied on the hearsay rule’s business-records exception to justify testimony about documents that weren’t admitted into evidence, the Iowa Supreme Court, citing decisions from across the country, reversed because “the rules of evidence create a ‘business records exception’ to the rule against hearsay and not a ‘testimony about business records exception.’”
  
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• ‘Inimitable’ Lisa Blatt nears 50th high court argument

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  WASHINGTON— No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who will make her 50th argument this month.
  
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• FBI opens criminal probe into bridge collapse, source says

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation into the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge that is focused on the circumstances leading up to it and whether all federal laws were followed, according to someone familiar with the matter.
  
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• Cook County Circuit Court redesigns website

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  The Cook County Circuit Court websitelooks different to users Monday after the launch of a redesigned platform intended to be more user- and mobile-friendly.
  
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• Clarence Thomas absent from court without explanation

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  WASHINGTON— Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was absent from the court Monday with no explanation.
  
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• Arizona high court rolls back clock to 1864 in abortion case

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  The Comstock Act of 1873 was referenced in the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in the mifepristone case recently heard, and may play a factor in at least some of the justices’ decisions. Turns out, Arizona told a certain justice, we know you like beer, hold this beer.
  
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• ‘Inimitable’ Lisa Blatt nears 50th high court argument

  15-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who will make her 50th argument this month.
  
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• State civil rights act can apply retroactively to Title IX suit

  12-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  VanderCook College of Music must face a claim under the Illinois Civil Rights Remedies Restoration Act (CRRRA) in a lawsuit by a former student who alleged that it violated Title IX.
  
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• Illinois Senate advances changes to state’s BIPA law

  12-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  It’s been more than a year since the Illinois Supreme Court “respectfully suggest(ed)” state lawmakers clarify a law that’s led to several multi-million-dollar settlements with tech companies over the collection of Illinoisans’ biometric data.
  
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• Giannoulias calls for disclosure of lobbyist contracts

  12-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  For decades, lobbyists in the Illinois Statehouse have been required to report how much they spend wining, dining and entertaining lawmakers.
  
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• Cook County jury awards $10M in mesh sling case

  12-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  A Cook County jury awarded $10.4 million to a woman who alleged she sustained permanent injuries from an improperly placedmesh sling meant to treat urinary incontinence.
  
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• Civil law — apparent agency

  12-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Where plaintiff receives a consent form indicating that their treating physician is not an agent of the hospital, this is not dispositive of an apparent agency relationship.
  
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• Alleged victims of data breach can pursue negligence suit

  12-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Two women who maintain their sensitive personal information was exposed to third parties in a data breach have stated a claim for negligence against the company storing the information, a federal judge held.
  
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• Aggregation supports corporate liability in case against Walmart

  12-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Count 2 of a civil complaint that accused Walmart of violating the Controlled Substances Act — by “knowingly” filling “ineffective” prescriptions from June 2013 to November 2017 — relied on mashup that combined the conduct of innocent pharmacists with the allegedly culpable knowledge of Walmart’s CSA “compliance team.”
  
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• PLA on Dramshop Act time limit among latest high court denied

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Building on last week’s column on rulings on petitions for leave to appeal from the Illinois Supreme Court on March 27, this week we review more of the numerous and important denials.
  
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• O.J. Simpson, acquitted in famous murder trial, dies at 76

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America, has died. He was 76.
  
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• Immigration — asylum, nexus

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Where petitioner failed to show nexus between her past persecution and membership in protected group, petition for review of decision denying asylum and withholding of removal was denied.
  
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• Deadly Chicago traffic stop raises use-of-force questions

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  A deadly traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in under a minute has raised serious questions about the use of force and role of tactical officers in departments.
  
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• Civil law — shareholder derivative action

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Where plaintiffs file a shareholder derivative action they must allege facts that provide reasonable doubt as to whether the board of directors could exercise independent and disinterested judgment.
  
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• Carpentry worker settles spinal injury claim for $13M

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  A Chicago man who required spinal fusion surgery after a 30-foot wall fell on him at a construction site will receive a $13 million settlement.
  
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• 6th Circuit mulls over mileage reimbursement for delivery drivers

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  In two cases consolidated for appeal about the correct reimbursement rate under the Fair Labor Standards Act for pizza delivery drivers who use their own vehicles, one district judge agreed with the drivers — ruling they are entitled to the standard rate of $0.54 per mile set by the Internal Revenue Service for business deductions in 2018.
  
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• 12 judges appointed to Cook County Circuit Court

  11-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  In another hefty batch of appointments, the Illinois Supreme Court announced 12 judges will join the Cook County Circuit Court ahead of the fall election “out of public necessity.”
  
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• Suit revived over car crash into restaurant

  10-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  A Waukegan restaurant must face a lawsuit alleging that its negligent construction caused a customer multiple leg fractures when a car crashed into its front entrance.
  
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• Pritzker names new head of state insurance oversight agency

  10-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced a change in leadership at the agency in charge of regulating the state’s insurance industry.
  
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• July 4 parade gun suits belong in state court, panel holds

  10-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  A federal appeals court rejected a bid by Smith & Wesson to remove from state to federal court a dozen lawsuits accusing the gun manufacturer of liability in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
  
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• Ex-Trump Organization CFO sentenced to 5 months for lying

  10-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Allen Weisselberg, a retired executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against the former president by New York’s attorney general.
  
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• Due process suits over murder convictions can continue

  10-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  Two women who allege a pair of former City of Chicago detectives fabricated evidence that resulted in their wrongful murder convictions in a 1992 double homicide can pursue claims of due process right violations.
  
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• Books open window to difficult topic of injustice, violent deaths

  10-04-2024 02:00 via chicagolawbulletin.com
  
  During Black History Month, scores of judges from the Illinois Latinx Judges’ Association went to read to elementary school children across the city of Chicago. I had the honor of reading to a group of Brighton Park fourth-graders on the Southwest Side.
  
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