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Federal Judge tosses airline employees' lawsuit claiming uniforms caused illnesses.
April 21st, 2025
I wrote a post back in November, 2023, about the substantial verdict a California jury awarded to four American Airlines employees for rashes, illnesses and respiratory issues the employees claimed were caused by their American Airlines uniforms. Specifically, the employees claimed that the clothing manufacturer, Twin Hill, used formaldehyde in the uniforms to…
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Appellate Court rebuffs same proximate cause argument twice in taco restaurant crash.
April 1st, 2025
Back in August, 2020, Darius King was a customer inside Taqueria El Paraiso – a Waukegan Taco joint – when a car driven by Melanie Sanders crashed through a wall, striking King who suffered serious injuries. King initially sued Sanders and Alberto Leguizamo, the owner of the El Paraiso. King then settled with Sanders and then dismissed Leguizamo. K…
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Trial Judge: criminal attack outside bar not foreseeable. The Illinois Appellate Court: not so fast....
February 18th, 2025
The First Appellate District of Illinois handed down a decision last week speaking to the duty of a bar when a patron becomes unruly, gets ejected and then hurts another patron outside the bar. Defense firms are quick to seek dismissal of these cases arguing that the bar had no reason to anticipate the attack(in legal speak, it was not “foreseeable”…
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Johnson & Johnson intimidation lawsuit dismissed.
July 2nd, 2024
Johnson & Johnson[“J&J”] continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. J&J has recently taken some multi-million dollar beatdowns in courtrooms across America, as a result of countless lawsuits where it is alleged J&J knowingly marketed talc powder contaminated with asbestos to American consumers for years. And in 2022, J&a…
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Bar pays alcoholic worker in booze. Worker gets drunk, falls, hits head, dies. Appellate Court says no independent cause of action against bar.
February 7th, 2024
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…
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Tags: Illinois Dram Shop Act
Illinois Homebuyer alleges National Association of Realtors conspiracy resulting in higher home prices
January 12th, 2024
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…
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Flight Attendants Secure $1 Million Plus Dollar Verdict for Formaldehyde-tainted uniforms.
November 15th, 2023
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…
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A routine motion and the heartbreak beneath.
November 8th, 2023
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…
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Young workers dying from incurable disease associated with stone countertops
October 3rd, 2023
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…
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Tags: silicosis
Supreme Court lets $2.2 billion dollar ovarian cancer verdict stand against Johnson & Johnson
June 23rd, 2021
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…
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