A former administrative assistant and police officer have accused a mayor of a Chicago suburb of violating the Illinois Human Rights Act, claiming they were removed from their positions after bringing forward sexual assault allegations against a village trustee. A civil suit filed April 8 in Cook County Circuit Court was brought…

The Virginia Supreme Court reversed an appellate court’s decision affirming a $1.6 million medical malpractice verdict originally in favor of the patient, concluding the jury instruction supporting the physician’s defense that the plaintiff’s fall could have been caused by other means was improperly refused. The high court concluded the trial court erroneously refused…

The trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, is set to proceed on May 6, but District Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York on Thursday ordered that Menendez’s wife and co-defendant Nadine Menendez will not be part of the trial as she faces a newly…

An objection to a $3.2 million counsel fee award in a class action settlement went further than most challenges of its kind. Theodore Frank, a class member in a data breach lawsuit against Wawa, took his objections up to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which vacated the fee…

Dallas Appeals Court Upholds Ending Joint Bond in $404M Judgment | Texas Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2024/04/11/courts-disagree-as-dallas-judges-uphold-bond-for-404m-judgment/ Court exhibit of crane collapse at Elan City Lights apartment community. Courtesy: Arnold & Itkin Greystar did not try to stop or delay the foreclosure in an “unmistakable effort to improperly dissipate assets…

Dozens of lawsuits filed over two matters—23andMe Inc.’s data breach and toxic metals in baby food—will be transferred to the Northern District of California. On Thursday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation coordinated the cases into separate multidistrict litigation dockets. In one order, the panel sent 39 cases against…