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As recently reported by Robert Pear in the New York Times, the Trump Administration is moving forward on its promise to strip victims of nursing home neglect of the right to pursue justice in courtrooms. For years, nursing homes have included “no sue” arbitration clauses in the documents patients [or their loved ones] sign upon admission of the pat… Read More

From the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Facebook Page… Researchers from the T. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard recently scoured data from a study done by the Work, Family and Health Network involving direct care workers at 30 nursing homes spread throughout New England. Some of the findings are not exactly encouraging news for folks hurt at w… Read More

An interesting decision was recently handed down by the Northern District of Illinois pertaining to wage payments – or the lack thereof. The case, Enger v. Chicago Carriage, arose out a dispute between some former and current Chicago taxi drivers[“drivers”] and the cab services for whom they worked and the owners of those services[“cab… Read More

Saw a VERY interesting article by Patrick M. O’Connell in the Chicago Tribune the other day about some wacky behavior in Park Ridge. 400 West Talcott, LLC [“Talcott”]is a Chicago-based real estate developer. Talcott wanted to put a four story condominium building in Park Ridge. The project had to be approved by the Park Ridge Planning and Zon… Read More

From the Odd Couplings Department… Marriya Wright[pictured below in swimsuit] until very recently, was a Deputy Prosecutor in the Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Then a picture of her, in a bikini, was discovered in the possession of Matthew Baumrucker, an inmate in the Spokane County Jail. That discovery was, not surprisingly, a litt… Read More

This creepy guy picked the wrong jogger to grope. This really has little if any relation to the law, but it certainly brightened my morning. Last week a woman was jogging on a popular jogging trail on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Without warning a man attacked, grabbed the woman’s rear end and pulling her pants down before running off. The woman in ques… Read More

What do California judges do in Chambers? You might be surprised. What do California judges do in Chambers? You might be surprised. According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, there is lots of interesting activity in chambers – at least when it comes to a couple of California jurists. First we have Orange County Superior Court Judge Scott Ste… Read More

Saw a story about this thing in Entrepreneur. Biron and Jonathan Ofir were two young guys who worked together in the Safety and Logistics Division of the Israeli Defense Forces. They soon learned that vehicular accidents accounted for more military deaths than actual combat – and alcohol was often a factor in the collisions. The two men came up with an i… Read More