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The First District Appellate court recently faced a novel question – what liability does a bar face when it provides free alcohol to someone who then falls, hits his head and dies? The case – Schramm v. 3258 Wells Street Restaurant – involved some unusual facts. Michael Schramm[“Michael”] worked as a busser at 3258 S. Wells, also… Read More

As detailed in Dennis Rodkin’s article in Crain’s this week, a Chicago-area homebuyer just filed a lawsuit against At World Properties, alleging that At World – the largest residential real estate firm in Illinois, has engaged in a longtime conspiracy to inflate home prices and broker commissions. The complaint, filed by James Tuccori, ostens… Read More

In September of 2016, American Airlines came up with yet another uniform change for its flight attendants. Tracey Silver-Charan had been working for American as a flight attendant for 35 plus years and had seen uniform modifications come and go many times over the years. She dutifully got the new uniform and started wearing it, and didn’t give it another… Read More

Judge Thomas Durkin ruled on a routine pleadings motion in Federal Court in Chicago this week. A defendant was moving to dismiss a complaint, asserting the injured party failed to include the necessary allegations to go forward with a complaint. Sometimes however, even dry rulings on routine pleadings motions cannot obscure the heartbreak beneath. On September… Read More

The Los Angeles Times had a disturbing article by Emily Alpert Reyes last week regarding the deadly illness popping up among workers involved in the cutting of manufactured stone for use in kitchen countertops. The illness – silicosis – is an incurable and suffocating disease that is killing workers across California – many of them quite youn… Read More

This important ruling got kind of lost in the news cycle. A couple weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court refused to vacate a $2.2 billion dollar ovarian cancer verdict against Johnson & Johnson[“J & J”]. The verdict was originally returned by a Missouri jury in 2018 on behalf of 22 women. The original verdict was actually $4.7 billion… Read More

The Illinois Second District Appellate court recently handed down an opinion that provides a pretty concise roadmap of the proof one needs when litigating a dog bite case. In Dziewra v. Ori, Jamie Dzierwa sued several people after she was bitten by Fiona – a 105 pound Cane Corso[a Cane Corso(not Fiona) is pictured above]. The drama started on July 25, 20… Read More

According to a recent Forbes article, McDonald’s Corporation is being sued for $1 billion dollars by dozens of former Black franchise owners who claim they were pushed to “substandard locations” that resulted in decreased revenue but increased insurance costs. The 52 former owners, who filed the lawsuit in federal court in Chicago, alleged th… Read More