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All three judges on a Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday appeared skeptical of the argument that they should pause sprawling multidistrict litigation over service members' and veterans' injuries allegedly caused by faulty 3M Co. earplugs while a subsidiary's bankruptcy case proceeds.
A Seventh Circuit panel on Friday threw out an illustrator's $3.6 million copyright infringement award and ordered a new damages trial to determine whether more than 30 of her illustrations amount to just two copyrighted compilations of work, chiding a lower court for entering summary judgment "based on the exact record we previously found insufficient."
Attorneys for former Commonwealth Edison employees accused of bribing ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan got their chance this week to temper explosive testimony from a key witness who had wired up for the government, pressing him to admit there was "no guarantee" ComEd bills would pass after the utility hired Madigan-backed candidates.
Chicago federal jurors on Tuesday heard a series of secretly recorded conversations between former Commonwealth Edison lobbyists and executives on trial for allegedly bribing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, in which the defendants described a long history of doing favors for the legislative leader and admitted that some employees hired by the utility at his behest did little to no work.
A Seventh Circuit judge on Monday questioned if the simple change in control that occurred when the Blackstone Group acquired genetic testing company Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion in 2020 was enough to allege a violation of an Illinois law barring the disclosure of genetic testing information without written permission.