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Sep 7, 2021

De Novo Review – Malpractice Claim

Plaintiff Linda Bergal brought this malpractice case against her attorney Ben Roth, his law firm, and accountant Joseph Sanders.

Sep 7, 2021

Summary Judgment – Sufficiency of Evidence

Defendants Champion Petfoods USA Inc. and Champion Petfoods LP (collectively, “Champion”) produce dog food that they market as biologically appropriate, containing fresh regional ingredients, and never outsourced.

Sep 7, 2021

Court Error – Standard of Competency

Jacob Wessel had a history of mental issues. On August 11, 2016, he allegedly raised a gun toward a police officer.

Sep 7, 2021

Immigration – Removal Order

Petitioner Victor Mejia-Padilla (“Mejia”) seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals sustaining the denial of his statutory motion to reopen his deportation proceeding, which he filed more than six years after that proceeding closed.

Sep 7, 2021

Statutory Interpretation – Alternative Fuel Mixture Tax Credit

Statutory interpretation is familiar territory for federal courts, and this appeal requires us to resolve a dispute over the scope of a statutory credit—taken against excise fuel taxes—that Congress made available to producers of “alternative fuel mixtures.”

Sep 7, 2021

Standing to Sue – Jurisdiction

Prairie Rivers Network is an Illinois non-profit organization that advocates for clean water and healthy rivers.

Sep 7, 2021

Time-barred

“Better late than never” is not a phrase typically heard in a federal courthouse.

Sep 7, 2021

Failure to State Claim

In August 2016 Millicent Nartey was admitted to a hospital where she suffered a stroke and eventually passed away.

Sep 7, 2021

Insurance Claim – Coverage

StarNet Insurance Company filed suit in diversity seeking a declaratory judgment specifying that the terms of a workers’ compensation and employers liability policy it issued to P.S. Demolition, Inc. obligate it to pay nothing more for a workplace injury than the amounts that Illinois workers’ compensation law requires P.S. Demolition to pay its injured employees.

Sep 7, 2021

8th Amendment Violation – Summary Judgment

Adrian Thomas sued several prison officials at Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois alleging they violated the Eighth Amendment by restricting him for two months to a cell with feces on the walls, a mattress covered in human waste, a bunk bed with a hundred dead flies, and inadequate plumbing that caused him to develop a rash.

Sep 7, 2021

Insurance Claim – Duty to Defend

This insurance dispute stems from Robert Shockley, Jr., filing a civil complaint in Illinois state court.

Sep 7, 2021

Immigration – Removal Order

Czeslaw Parzych, a Polish citizen and lawful permanent resident of the United States, was twice convicted of burglary in Illinois, leading the Department of Homeland Security to begin removal proceedings.

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