Shields v. United States
Shields parked his car partially in a crosswalk, in violation of a Chicago ordinance. Officers approached Shields, who was in the driver’s seat. They told Shields to get out of the car. He ran. An...
View ArticleA.D. v. Credit One Bank, N.A.
Credit One repeatedly called A.D.’s (a minor) cell phone about payments owed on her mother’s account. A.D., by and through her mother, Serrano, brought a putative class action under the Telephone...
View ArticleNewman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
At age 56, Newman purchased a long-term-care insurance plan MetLife, opting for one of MetLife’s non-standard options for paying her insurance premiums, “Reduced-Pay-at 65.” From the outset, Newman...
View ArticleMarshall v. Blake
Blake is a below‐median income debtor who filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. In her proposed bankruptcy plan, Blake sought to retain her annual earned income tax credit and a portion of her tax...
View ArticleAustin v. Walgreen Co.
Austin spent time at a Hebron, Indiana Walgreens store, walked toward the registers, then slipped and fell. Austin did not see anything on the floor that would have caused the fall and testified: “my...
View ArticleArmada (Singapore) PTE Ltd. v. Amcol International Corp.
Plaintiff, a Singaporean shipping company, entered into shipping contracts with an Indian mining company. The Indian company breached those contracts. Plaintiff believes that American businesses that...
View ArticleHenricks v. United States
Henricks owned a towing business, an auto body shop, and a vehicle dealership, which he used to defraud insurance companies by filing fraudulent claims. Henricks’s wife, Catherine, worked at the...
View ArticleThorncreek Apartments I, LLC v. Village of Park Forest
Thorncreek, a Park Forest townhouse complex, applied to the Village for a permit to use a vacant townhouse as a business office but began to conduct its business from the townhouse without a permit....
View ArticleOtis v. Demarasse
Otis’s amended pro se 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint alleged that Waterford Officer Demarasse stopped Otis on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Otis claims she alerted the officer that she was “very...
View ArticleBaek v. Clausen
Baek purchased property through his LLC and obtained financing from Labe Bank; Frank was the loan officer. Frank later moved to NCB and asked Baek to move his business, representing that NCB would...
View ArticleHicks v. United States
Hicks led an organization that processed, packaged, and sold drugs in Chicago. A jury found him and co-defendants guilty of conspiracy with intent to distribute over 50 grams of crack cocaine, 21...
View ArticleBrock v. United States
Brock-Miller pled guilty, with a plea agreement, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. She received a sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment. She then challenged her conviction under...
View ArticleAkin v. Berryhill
Akin, a 47-year-old woman, claims that she became disabled in 2011 principally from fibromyalgia, back and neck pain, and headaches. An administrative law judge denied her application for Supplemental...
View ArticleUnited States v. Williams
In 2014, Williams was charged with conspiracy to possess heroin with intent to distribute. He entered the Pretrial Alternatives Detention Initiative (PADI), graduated in June 2015, and was referred to...
View ArticleQuinn v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago
The Mayor of Chicago appoints the city’s Board of Education, 105 ILCS 5/34-3. Until 1995, the Mayor needed the consent of the City Council; now the Mayor acts independently. Plaintiffs claimed that...
View ArticleHaywood v. Massage Envy Franchising, LLC
Plaintiffs visited different Massage Envy locations and had massages that lasted about 50 minutes. The company advertises, on its website, an “Introductory 1‐hour Massage Session*” at the price of...
View ArticleUnited States v. Bell
During the execution of a search warrant, ATF agents found Bell in possession of a pistol. Charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), Bell entered a plea...
View ArticleTeufel v. Northern Trust Co.
In 2012 Northern changed its defined-benefit pension plan under which retirement income depended on years worked, times an average of the employee’s five highest-earning consecutive years, times a...
View ArticleDieffenbach v. Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble discovered that its PIN pads, used to verify payment information, had been compromised. The hackers acquired customers’ names, card numbers and expiration dates, and PINs. Some...
View ArticleCommunity Bank of Trenton v. Schnuck Markets, Inc.
In 2012, hackers infiltrated the computer networks at Schnuck Markets, a large Midwestern grocery store chain based in Missouri, and stole the data of about 2.4 million credit and debit cards. By the...
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