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According to an article by Abdon M. Pallasch in todays Chicago Sun-Times, Bob Rohrmann, the owner of 26 Honda, Toyota and Lexus automobile dealerships in Illinois and Indiana, is suing a plastic surgeon who carried on an affair with his wife for “alienation of affection.” Rohrmann[famous for his signature roar at the end of commercials] and his thi… Read More

The Illinois Appellate Court[First District] recently released the Clark v. Children’s Memorial Hospital decision, which clarifies what parents may recover in a “wrongful birth” case. “Wrongful birth” refers to the claim of parents who allege they would have avoided conception, or terminated a pregnancy but for the negligence of t… Read More

The retaliatory discharge case recently filed by Paul Liska against his former employer, Motorola, is getting nasty. According to Wailin Wong’s April 16, 2009 article in the Chicago Tribune, Motorola recently filed a motion with the trial judge alleging that Liska destroyed evidence on a Motorola laptop he used after his termination. In a Memorandum file… Read More

Wow. A recent Chicago Tribune by Wailin Wong detailed how a corporate marriage can go bad. Very bad. By way of background, in early 2008, Motorola, hired Paul Liska as the new Chief Financial Officer. Motorola’s flagship mobile phone unit, which once was on the cutting edge with innovations like the Razr cellphone, had taken on water and needed to get ba… Read More

Recently saw an interesting article about a multi-million dollar settlement resulting from devastating injuries suffered by a little boy at a Burger King restuarant in Southern California. Back in August of 2005, Jacob Buckett,[pictured below, before the incident] then only 8, accompanied his dad and younger sister to lunch at a Burger King in Temecula, Califo… Read More

A Chicago man will receive a $2.7 million settlement from the City of Chicago after being wrongfullly imprisoned for 27 years. In 1977, Paul Terry and Michael Evans[then both only 17] were prosecuted for the abduction, rape and murder of 9 year old child. They were both released in 2003 after DNA testing showed that the rape had been committed by someone else.… Read More

On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court upheld a multi-million dollar Vermont verdict, and in doing so preserved an important right for consumers – the right to sue drug manufacturers for injuries caused by defective drugs. The case that started it all began in Vermont in the year 2000, when Diana Levine[shown below] went to a clinic near her home… Read More

Dave Weiner commented on this story on the Huffington Post this a.m… Nigel Haskett was working at a Little Rock, Arkansas McDonald’s last summer when he saw an individual physically assaulting a woman in the restuarant. Mr. Haskett immediately rushed to the woman’s aid and struggled with the scumbag who was assaulting her. Unfortunately, duri… Read More