ATM lawsuit filed against Amcore Bank
2009-12-07 22:47:00 A class action lawsuit was filed against Amcore Bank regarding its alleged failure to post notices on certain ATMs informing users that a fee will be imposed. According to the complaint, Amcore violated the Electronic Funds Transfer Act when it did not have "Posted Fee Notices" on several of its ATMs located in Rockford and other cities. The complaint states that the Electronic Funds Transfer Act requires ATMs to provide notice to consumers that a fee will be imposed for using the machine and what the fee will be. See a similar case here. Read the complaint after the jump. Follow me on Twitter at jenfernicola....
Lawsuit after computer crash extends Cook County jail sentences
2009-12-04 15:00:00 By Amalia OulahanIoan Sameli/flickrIn early October, Cook County jail launched a new digital system, IMACS, for keeping track of its detainees' comings and goings. Before that, the old computer system had not been overhauled since its installation - in 1978. That system crashed three times in the year before it was replaced, according to a jail spokesperson Steve Patterson....
Lawsuit: Beaten up for taking a picture of the Hanson Brothers
2009-12-03 23:51:00 A Chicago woman is suing the House of Blues and a security guard for allegedly assaulting her after she took a photo of the Hanson Brothers' tour bus. Brittney Hernandez says that on October 12, 2009, after attending the Hanson Brothers concert at the House of Blues, she waited outside with other Hanson fans for the group's tour bus to depart when she was attacked by a House of Blues' security guard for taking a public photograph. The complaint also states that the security guard took possession of Hernandez' property, presumably her camera. Read the complaint after the jump. Follow me on Twitter at jenfernicola. ...
ACLU wins lawsuit to get corrected birth certificates
2009-12-02 17:00:00 Photo Credit:lilithvf via Flickr CC Last week the ACLU announced that three of their clients were in possession of new, accurate birth certificates after they were unfairly denied them based on policies of the Illinois Department of Public Health. Earlier this decade,the Department's Division of Vital Records started interpreting the Vital Records Act to allow womeone to change the gender "marker" on their birth certificate only if the individual had their sex reassignment surgery performed by a US licensed physician. This automatically disallowed those individuals who sought and received sex reassignment surgery in Europe, South America and Asia. Earlier this year the ACLU sued on behalf of two of their clients to request birth certificates indicating their correct gender. ...
Wirtz lawsuit over booze tax hike holds up CTA capital dollars
2009-12-02 13:00:00 A lawsuit challenging the increased state tax on beer, wine and liquor is keeping the state from issuing bonds to fund almost $1 billion in CTA capital improvementsEarlier this year the legislature passed a $31 billion capital spending plan, with about $900 million earmarked for the CTA. But Rocky Wirtz owner of the Blackhawks and one of the country's largest beer and liquor distributors, promptly sued, saying the bill "rolls too many subjects into one bill and fails to adhere to a uniformity clause," according to a Crain's story.At Monday's Red and Purple line vision session I asked State Sen. Heather Steans the status of the funds. She said the Wirtz lawsuit is keeping the stte from issuing bonds to...
Lawsuit: National Hair Growth Institute lies
2009-11-17 23:47:00 Attorney General Lisa Madigan is suing the Natural Hair Growth Institute and Omega Hair Group and its President Steve Bennis asserting that it uses a certain laser light therapy not cleared by the FDA and does not provide refunds to clients as promised. According to the complaint, defendants use a certain "Orbit Laser Light" that they developed and gives the impression on its website that it is similar to laser light therapy which was recently cleared for use in the U.S. by the FDA. However, the Orbit Laser Light is not similar to laser light therapy, has not been cleared for use by the FDA and there is no reliable scientific studies that prove it can re-grow hair, the complaint...
Lawsuit: Cops dangle man from 2nd floor window, cause his death
2009-11-13 23:02:00 The estate of a man allegedly held by his legs from the second floor window of his home by two Chicago police officers is suing the city and the individual police officers. According to the complaint, on March 10, 2009, police officers Henry Thomas and Patrick Kane entered the home of Matthias Mayhorn without permission, came into contact with Mayhorn on the second floor, threatened him with injury and/or death by hanging him by his legs out of the second floor window, fired a weapon at him while he was hanging out of the window, dropped him onto the pavement below and delayed in summoning medical assistance. Thomas and Kane also interviewed witnesses and investigated the occurrence in an improper...
Lawsuit: Work from Home ads are a scam!
2009-11-10 00:14:00 A class action complaint has been filed regarding "Work from Home" ads on the internet, asserting they are deceptive and misleading. Barbara Ford, the named plaintiff who is described as "elderly, retired and on a fixed income," clicked on an advertisement link located on her AOL homepage pitching a Google 'work at home' opportunity and "reasonably believed" this was a Google offer and did not know that Google had nothing to do with the product being sold by defendant Pacific WebWorks. Ford agreed to pay $1.97 for the "Google Business Kit" and didn't realize she would also be charged an additional $79.90. Ford called Pacific WebWorks and informed them that she never authorized the charge and never received her Google Kit. She...
Lawsuit: Assaulted with butcher knife at Uncle Joe's Tropical Diner
2009-11-09 23:32:00 A man says he was held against his will, attacked and swiped at with a butcher knife at Uncle Joe's Diner. A complaint filed today by Michael Myles states that on November 9, 2007, while Myles was a patron at the diner, defendant Joe Neish confronted him "for which an unprovoked altercation ensued." The complaint then states that Myles was locked inside the restaurant against his will, kicked, pushed, punched and swiped at with a large butcher knife by employees of the defendant and by Neish (whose name is spelled 'Neisch' at other points in the complaint). Read the complaint after the jump. Follow me on Twitter at jenfernicola....
Online Report Cards, MySpace Lawsuit, FLA HotSeat, Income Integration,
2009-11-06 23:07:00 A look at the week's most thought-provoking education news from around the country:More districts use income, not race, as basis for busing USA TodayStudents in Champaign, Ill.; Kalamazoo, Mich.; and Louisville have returned this year to income-based assignments.More report cards go online USA Today Districts in Louisiana, Colorado, South Carolina and Texas are among those that have gone paperless since 2008. In Richmond Rape, One Teen Did The Right Thing Jezebel"I'm like 'We should call the cops because that's the right thing to do.' I didn't think about it twice."Florida Officials Fail to Provide Quality Education, Suit Claims NYT The American Civil Liberties Union, citing low graduation rates, says officials are violating a requirement in the Florida Constitution.Anguish Over Calif....
Lawsuit: Lufthansa and UAL ruined vacation
2009-10-27 20:19:00 A Kentucky couple is suing Lufthansa and United Airlines for damages resulting from a series of events that caused them to miss a family vacation in Florida.According to the complaint, Vladimir Shtapov and Vera Shtapova, residents of Louisville, Kentucky, were scheduled to leave the City of Perm (Russian Federation) on June 30, 2009 and return home to Kentucky in time to leave for a vacation in Florida with their son and his family. The complaint states that the following series of events then occurred:- The couple was supposed to board the June 30th Lufthansa flight back to Kentucky via Frankfurt, Germany at 3:20am but at 6am, the LH agent advised that "the cargo door would not close" and the flight...
$1 Million Dollar Parking Ticket Lawsuit
2009-10-08 07:10:00 It started out with a parking ticket.A Traffic Management Authority (TMA) supervisor for the City of Chicago wrote a minivan a parking ticket....
ACORN Launches Lawsuit Against Undercover Filmmakers
2009-09-23 23:47:00 The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to create sound recordings. The two employees seen in the video were fired after it was posted online.
By: Get rich
Asbestos Related Lawsuit Dismissed by Judge
2009-09-23 17:23:00 According to a recent report a lawsuit that was filed against a law firm and a radiologist has been dismissed by a U.S. District Judge. The lawsuit was filed by a transportation company and alleged that a fraudulent diagnosis of asbestosis had been made by the doctor. The transportation firm, which was Florida based CSX Transportation, ...
Thirty Six Defendant Companies Named in Asbestos Lawsuit
2009-09-22 19:51:00 According to a recent report an asbestos related lawsuit has been filed by a man who has contracted the asbestos cancer mesothelioma. The lawsuit has named thirty six companies as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed by a former pipe fitter and welder. The lawsuit claims that Tommy Harrell was exposed to asbestos in ...
District Court Throws Out Wrestlers Lawsuit Against WWE... Again
2009-09-19 22:24:00 Back in February, a federal court in Connecticut dismissed a lawsuit brought by three former wrestlers who contended, among other things, that they were improperly classified as independent contractors.The case garnered national attention for a variety of reasons, including the disclosure of the wrestlers contracts. (If you'd like to see the details on the contract, you can view them here.)But after that, two of the three wrestlers (Scott Levy and Christopher Klucsarits) filed a motion to amend the judgment or otherwise set it aside to allow them an replead (or refile) their claims. Notably, one of the wrestlers --- Michael Sanders -- did not join in this motion.On July 31, 2009, the District Court denied the wrestlers' motions, finding that even if it allowed the amendments at this late date, such amendments would be "futile". In other words, even if the court allowed the amendment, the wrestlers would STILL lose on the merits. You can download the decision here. The wrestlers ...
By: KLQ Blog
Judge Allows Parking Meter Lawsuit To Proceed
2009-09-12 07:47:00 Friday, a judge in Cook County Circuit Court allowed the IVI-IPO parking meter lawsuit to proceed....
Couple Files Lawsuit Number Two over Asbestos Exposure
2009-09-07 19:31:00 A couple has filed a second asbestos related lawsuit, this time naming eighteen companies as defendants according to a recent report. In the lawsuit the couple, Gilbert and Bonita Harper, have claimed that Mr Harper’s exposure to asbestos was wrongfully caused during the course of his work. In this second lawsuit the couple is now looking ...
Psystar wants Snow Leopard - There?s a lawsuit for that
2009-08-29 05:15:00 In another sour chapter in the already sour soap opera between the clone maker Psystar and Apple there is a new twist, Psystar wants Snow Leopard installed in every new clone they sell and is suing Apple because it failed to let Psystar runs the animal themed OS. Maybe the people from Psystar are drinking too ...
Andy Shaw's Take On Meter Lawsuit
2009-08-27 21:02:00 Andy Shaw, former ABC 7 political reporter and now the head of the Better Government Association, joined the Fox 32 morning show recently to share his thoughts on the IVI-IVO lawsuit....
Parking Meter Lawsuit Throwdown On Chicago Tonight
2009-08-20 21:11:00 It was an intellectual, three man cage match, ala' the World Wrestling Federation on Chicago Tonight yesterday evening. With Elizabeth Brackett refereeing the verbal melee over the recent filing of the lawsuit against the parking meter lease deal, there were three political heavyweights in the ring. In one corner, Clint "La Ley" Krislov, who is the lease attorney on the lawsuit. In the second corner, Chicago Reader political reporter, Mick "The Bruiser" Dumke. In the third corner, 50th Ward Alderman Bernie "The Grump" Stone. It was Krislov who came out swinging early in the segment, with Stone, who backs the parking meter lease deal, getting some defensive jabs in. Finally, Dumke jumped into the fray, going toe to toe...
Lawsuit, bad tickets become the latest woes for Chicago's parking mete
2009-08-20 11:36:00 Chicago's inspector general had already questioned whether the city got shortchanged in it's $1.15 billion deal to lease 36,000 parking meters for 75 years. Now a taxpayer watchdog group says the deal may be illegal, and a local investigative reporter finds that dozens of bogus parking tickets have been issued this year....
IVI-IPO Lawsuit On Chicago Tonight At 7 PM
2009-08-20 02:16:00 Hey!Elizabeth Bracket discusses the lawsuit filed by IVI-IPO on WTTW's Chicago Tonight. this evening at 7 PM. That's channel 11 for us over the air folks. I know the Reader's Mick Dumke will be on the panel to discuss the lawsuit...
IVI-IPO Files Lawsuit Over Parking Meter Lease
2009-08-20 01:51:00 "Somebody oughta sue the city over this," is what came out of the mouths of countless barstool pundits at every watering hole throughout the city when the parking meter lease deal first kicked in. Today, somebody finally did.That somebody is the Independent Voters of Illinois - Independent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO) and Chicago resident Aviva Patt....
Mesothelioma Lawsuit Filed against Former High Street Giant
2009-08-18 00:02:00 According to a recent report a lawsuit has been filed against a former UK High Street giant over asbestos exposure issues. The lawsuit has been filed by a woman, Verna Sarjeant, whose husband died from the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma, having been employed by the former High Street giant Woolworths. Woolworths, which was known affectionately as ...
Lawsuit filed in the fatal police shooting of a man in Lawndale
2009-08-08 02:03:00 The mother of a man shot to death by police in Lawndale last month filed a wrongful death suit against the City of Chicago and unknown police officers in the Circuit Court of Cook County today. According to the complaint, Rakeem Nance left his family's home and was chased by police officers under the elevated train tracks. Police then aimed and shot him....
Tweeting ex-tenant's lawsuit against Horizon Realty revealed
2009-08-07 02:49:00 Amanda Bonnen's Twitter page, captured last Monday before it went down. Last week, news of Horizon Realty's lawsuit against former tenant Amanda Bonnen broke on this blog and went viral, spreading across the blogosphere and making national and international headlines.Shortly after, the company responded with a press release, defending its decision to sue over Bonnen's tweet by invoking a timeless rationale that goes something like this (and I paraphrase):... She started it....
Wednesday's bizzaro lawsuit roundup
2009-08-06 01:04:00 Filed in Cook County Court today....A lawsuit over a botched eyebrow tattoo job performed at an Illinois spa - eyebrow tattooing suit.pdf...
Wednesday's bizzaro lawsuit roundup
2009-08-06 01:04:00 Filed in Cook County Court today....A lawsuit over a botched eyebrow tattoo job performed at an Illinois spa - eyebrow tattooing suit.pdf...
Lisa Madigan drops another discrimination lawsuit on Wells Fargo
2009-08-01 01:45:00 Last month, The Chicago Reporter raised the question: "If Baltimore sued Wells Fargo, why aren't we?" Today, the Illinois Attorney General became the latest in a growing line of folks to charge the lending giant with discriminatory lending practices....
Lower West Side police chase results in collision and lawsuit
2009-07-31 01:24:00 You gotta feel a little sorry for Ruben Salcedo. Apparently, the guy was minding his own business on September 13, 2008, driving around Chicago when a fleeing felon, Shon Williams, collided with him near the intersection of Racine and 18th during a high-speed police chase. This is according to the complaint Salcedo filed today in Cook County court....
Horizon Realty issues press release regarding Twitter lawsuit
2009-07-29 00:32:00 Chicago-based Horizon Realty has responded to widespread backlash facing the apartment company after a story about its lawsuit against a tweeting tenant put it in the national limelight today....
Horizon Realty responds to Twitter lawsuit buzz with a press release
2009-07-29 00:29:00 They're sorry for their tongue-in-cheek comments, according to the release.But Horizon Realty Group still contends that "no mold was ever found" in the apartment of Chicago resident Amanda Bonnen, and argues that in filing the $50,000 defamation lawsuit yesterday against Bonnen, they- "acted to protect our reputation just as we would for any other related comment made in a public forum."...
Tweet leads to defamation lawsuit against Amanda Bonnen
2009-07-28 18:22:00 The Chicago Bar-Tender has the story of a woman's tweeting leading to a $50,000 defamation lawsuit, and it's making headlines across the city today (Tribune, Sun-Times, CBS2). Horizon Group Management filed the suit after Bonnen sent the following reply to @JessB123: "You should just come anyway. Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay."...
State-filed lawsuit against Burr Oak Cemetery assesses what could be more t
2009-07-15 02:34:00 Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes and Attorney General Lisa Madigan took legal action against Burr Oak Cemetery, where more than 300 graves were unearthed and bodies were desecrated for profit.The suit, filed today in the Circuit Court of Cook County, accuses the cemetery of misleading consumers regarding financing of pre-need burial contracts and failure to provide the actual services consumers purchased....
Nancy Benoit Hustler Nude Photos Lawsuit
2009-06-26 16:17:00 Wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife Nancy Benoit, also a former wrestler, and his son then hung himself at their suburban Atlanta home back in 2007. Nude photos of Nancy taken more than 20 years ago were published on Hustler Magazine after her death. Nancy Benoit’s family filed a federal lawsuit against the Larry Flynt Publishing ...
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Sued Over Book ? Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
2009-06-24 00:59:00 ?The View? host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is getting sued by a woman from Massachusetts named Susan Hasset who claims Elisabeth?s new book ?The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide? infringed on copyrights of her own book titled ?Living With Celiac Disease.? Susan says she sent Elisabeth a copy of her book in April of 2008, in addition ...
Racketeering Lawsuit Filed Against Rod Blagojevich by Three Casino Companie
2009-06-15 01:07:00 Three casino companies have filed a $267 million racketeering lawsuit against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and a prominent racetrack owner over a controversial law that requires casinos to...
Facebook User Files a $70 Lawsuit on Facebook and Subsequently Withdraws
2009-05-27 18:43:00 Quite a few of us have surely seen the new phishing attack that has been doing rounds of Facebook, well this piece brought an interesting twist to the whole episode. Theodore Karantsalis, a Florida resident deicded that he was not going to take things lying down and decided to sue Facebook for $70.50 for not protecting his account. The funny part however, was how he arrived at the figure, as Mashable quotes: The suit was filed by Theodore Karantsalis in Miami-Dade County court, and the figure calculated based on his claim that after being affected by a Facebook virus, he had to re-add his 250 friends, with an estimated value of 30 cents each. Personally I’d have given my friends a little more weight than just 30 cents, but then I don’t have 250 friends on Facebook either. But then Karantsalis wasn’t after money, as he mentioned ”Basically, I filed to get their attention,” he said before agreeing to drop the suit. “Facebook has failed to res...
By: WATblog
Porsche Girl Nikki Catsouras? Car Crash Graphic Photos Lawsuit
2009-05-06 22:50:00 Nikki Catsouras died in a horrible car crash on Halloween 2006 after a heated fight with her father Christos Catsouras, who had taken away her car keys. The impulsive 18 year-old grabbed the keys to her father’s Porsche 911 Carrera and drove off. She ended up losing control of the vehicle at more than 100 ...
Alomar Settles AIDS Lawsuit
2009-05-06 16:14:00 Alomar Settles AIDS Lawsuit Former Blue Jay Roberto Alomar and his ex-girlfriend have settled her explosive lawsuit claiming he made her have unprotected sex even though he had AIDS. Ilya Dall sued Alomar in federal court in February for $15 million (U.S.). Her allegations he demanded sex without a condom despite showing signs of AIDS were ...
By: Mop Up Duty
X17 Xclusive - OctoMom Responds To Gloria Allred?s Lawsuit
2009-05-06 02:00:00 We caught up with OctoMom Nadya Suleman today and asked her about attorney Gloria Allred's plans to file a lawsuit to make sure that Suleman gives her kids some of the money she makes if a planned reality show...
By: i think he blogs
Cyber bullying Lawsuit: Facebook versus Teenager
2009-03-09 20:53:00 New York teenager, Denise Finkel has sued Facebook for $3 million because, she claims, it carried a fictitious Facebook chat group to bully, ostracize, ridicule, abuse and disgrace her. The lawsuit states that former high school classmates, Michael Dauber, Jeffrey Schwartz, Leah Herz, and Melinda Danowitz created the chat room in which they falsely claimed ...
Texas Man Files Lawsuit over Asbestos Exposure
2009-02-25 20:32:00 A man from Texas has recently filed a lawsuit claiming that he was diagnosed with an asbestos related disease that was wrongfully caused as a result of exposure to the potentially deadly substance. He has files his lawsuit against thirty one defendant companies, according to recent reports. According to the plaintiff, Thaddeus Alpough, he worked as ...
Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case
2009-01-23 20:45:00 Image by Getty Images via Daylife [From Wired.com] By David Kravets The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. In ...
By: News for Greens
Asbestos Lawsuit Targets Ship Owner
2008-12-19 20:29:00 An asbestos lawsuit that is drawing to an end has accused the owner of some ships on which the late husband of the plaintiff worked of being negligent, and of wrongfully causing the death of the former worker. The lawsuit has been filed against Exxon, which owned a number of the ships on which the ...
Widow Files Lawsuit Over Husband?s Death
2008-12-18 17:27:00 The widow of a seventy nine year old man who died from asbestos related health problems has filed a lawsuit against sixty nine defendant companies, claiming it was these companies that were responsible for her late husband’s untimely death. The lawsuit was filed several weeks ago in Kanawha Circuit Court. According to court papers David Knotts ...
Retired Head JAG Interferes in Plans For Lawsuit Meant to Free Marine Serge
2008-12-10 16:11:00 Sgt Lawrence Hutchins III sits in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, wrongfully convicted of manslaughter. His case is one that made worldwide headlines in 2006, and continues to set records for the amount of corruption and dishonor involved in putting this amazing Marine away for over a decade?all because he did his ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Retired Head JAG Interferes in Plans For Lawsuit Meant to Free Marine Serge
2008-12-10 16:11:00 Sgt Lawrence Hutchins III sits in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, wrongfully convicted of manslaughter. His case is one that made worldwide headlines in 2006, and continues to set records for the amount of corruption and dishonor involved in putting this amazing Marine away for over a decade?all because he did his ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Retired Head JAG Interferes in Plans For Lawsuit Meant to Free Marine Serge
2008-12-10 16:11:00 Sgt Lawrence Hutchins III sits in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, wrongfully convicted of manslaughter. His case is one that made worldwide headlines in 2006, and continues to set records for the amount of corruption and dishonor involved in putting this amazing Marine away for over a decade?all because he did his ...
By: Euphoric Reality
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