An Illinois state court has permanently tossed a State Farm policyholder's privacy claims targeting family medical history questions the insurer asked as part of its life insurance underwriting process, agreeing with its argument that the state's Genetic Information Privacy Act doesn't apply to life insurance.
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Northwestern University has been slapped with a proposed class action in an Illinois Circuit Court from Jewish undergraduate and graduate students who say the university "twisted itself into a pretzel" to accommodate anti-Israel-Hamas war demonstrators who shouted discriminatory and hateful chants from the middle of campus.
An Illinois federal judge told Hytera Communications on Monday it still had not done enough to be free of serious sanctions for continuing a Chinese intellectual property suit against her orders, saying recent instant messages between Hytera and the Chinese court were not proof the case was officially over.
An Illinois federal judge refused on Friday to spell out exactly what Hytera Communications should tell a Chinese court to lift the U.S. judge's hefty sanctions and halt the foreign litigation that the company participated in against her orders, saying it is Hytera's responsibility to unwind the situation the company created for itself.
An Illinois federal judge imposed a daily $1 million fine and other steep contempt sanctions against Hytera Communications on Tuesday, as she ripped the company for violating her order to refrain from participating in Chinese litigation that could undermine Motorola Solutions' $530 million mobile radio trade secrets trial win.
An Illinois federal judge has refused to block a Burford Capital investment unit from pursuing price-fixing allegations in a consolidated case against major turkey producers, saying federal law largely no longer recognizes the "antiquated" doctrine the producers cited to invalidate the claim.
The Illinois Supreme Court has questioned whether two law firms should be allowed to preserve their $1.7 million fee award for their work on a family dispute that settled after they were fired, as the justices asked whether fees are appropriate if the firms never disclosed how they would split the money.
An ex-trader charged with tanking his former employer by claiming inflated commissions and entering unauthorized trades that caused $30 million in losses testified Monday that he wasn't trying to defraud others but rather cover his hedges and correct significant mistakes he'd made while trading.
Hershey deceptively markets its organic and plant-based chocolate bars as though they contain ethically sourced and sustainable cocoa when it knows supplying and producing the bars contributes to exploitative labor practices in the cocoa industry, a consumer claimed Thursday in federal court.