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A financial adviser who was sentenced to over 13 years in prison for defrauding clients out of roughly $5 million urged the Seventh Circuit Thursday to vacate his conviction and sentence, saying the district court wrongly allowed his change of plea hearing to be conducted by phone during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Kroger Co. told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that an injunction blocking Grubhub from using a new logo until the court rules on the grocery giant's claims of trademark infringement is warranted to keep Kroger's Home Chef meal-kit delivery service from having to change its entire brand identity and advertising strategy.
A physician and professor at the University of Chicago entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday to charges that he traded on inside information from Five Prime Therapeutics Inc. ahead of the publication of positive results of a drug trial for its leading cancer drug bemarituzumab.
A pet store chain sued the state of Illinois in federal court Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of change to state law passed earlier this year barring the purchase of pets using credit, saying between 50% and 80% of its sales involves consumer lending to finance the purchase of dogs from its stores and affiliated breeders.
Some of the year's most significant rulings handed down by Illinois' appellate courts and the Seventh Circuit could add even more cases to the state's already steady flood of biometric privacy cases and prevent businesses from litigating in federal court. Here, Law360 looks at some of 2021's biggest decisions in Illinois courts.