People News: Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. managing equity partner and chairman Patrick A. Salvi will serve as a medical malpractice panelist Saturday at the 2024 AANS annual scientific meeting at McCormick Place.
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People News: The Illinois Supreme Court announced 1st District Appellate Court Justice Michael B. Hyman will serve as an ex-officio member of the Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice.
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Steven Garmisa highlights a case involving stock options where a California court had to decide if a terminated employee’s damages should be limited to the alleged value of his stock options when he was fired.
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A man who was shot by unknown assailants while waiting in the drive-through lane of a Wendy’s does not have a case for negligence against the fast-food restaurant chain, a federal judge held.
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Law Day Letters: Illinois legal leaders share how they use their leadership voice. Read the essay by Nicola “Nicky” Boothe, Dean and Professor of Law at UIC Law at bit.ly/3WlOCT2. (Free to read.)

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A woman who sued Home Depot after being hit with drywall studs in a Chicago store cannot use the testimony of three medical professionals who lacked knowledge of her history of chronic pain.
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Law Day Letters: Illinois legal leaders share how they use their leadership voice. Read the essay by Shawn Kasserman, President of the Illinois State Bar at bit.ly/3UEpDJ9. (Free to read.)

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A Fayette County jury awarded $12.2 million to a truck driver who injured his back in a car crash on Interstate 70 in southern Illinois.
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Voices of leadership: In advance of #LawDay on Wednesday, read the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin's e-edition for free today, including our annual Law Day Letters feature highlighting bar group and law school leaders at chicagolawbulletin.com/law-day.

A judgment will stand against a pair of former students who were found to have wrongly accused their University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor of sexual assault, a federal appeals court held.
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Douglas Masters and Seth Rose highlight an ongoing legal battle between the family of deceased Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente and the government of Puerto Rico for using the late ballplayer’s trademarked image on license plates.
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People News: GreenbergTraurig LLP added Lance C. Tyson as of counsel to its public finance and infrastructure practice.
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People News: Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres added Eugene A. Schoon as senior counsel to its litigation practice group. The firm also added Charles E. Reiter III as senior counsel to its outside general counsel practice group.
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Steven Garmisa highlights a 4th District cash-out merger case where the court instructed the trial judge to consider the equitable remedy of “rescissory damages” as an alternative to compensatory damages.
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The Illinois Supreme Court will hear five civil cases in its May term, including weighing in on whether a class action suit that does not allege actual harm has standing in court.
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An employee who alleges Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp. required her to answer questions about her family medical history does not have a case under the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act, a state court judge ruled.
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.Daniel Cotter highlights an Oregon case facing the U.S. Supreme Court where a municipality fined homeless people for using blankets, pillows or cardboard boxes for protection while sleeping within city limits.
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People News: Keating Law Offices promoted M. Catelyn Viggiano to partner. The firm also hired Jack Dassow as an attorney.
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Steven Garmisa highlights an antitrust case against turkey processors where one of the plaintiffs assigned its claim to a third party, but the defendants argued the transfer was invalid as “champertous” under Illinois law.
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An attorney who misappropriated more than $11,300 in trust funds should be suspended for one year, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission hearing board.
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