Civil Digest

Negligence Claim – Prescription Drug Label

Defendant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) appeals from a jury verdict awarding $3 million to plaintiff Wendy Dolin for the death of her husband, Stewart Dolin. Mrs. Dolin alleges that GSK’s negligent omissions in the drug label for Paxil caused her husband’s death.

14th Amendment Violation – Damage Award

Wexford Health Sources provides medical care to inmates in Illinois’s prisons. Donald Beard, Jr., an inmate, experiences chronic ankle pain.

Immigration – Removal Proceedings

In 2015, tattooed members of the Mara 18 gang held a gun to petitioner W.G.A.’s head and threatened to kill him.

Contract Validity – Personal Guaranty

Sabafon, a telephone company based in Yemen, wanted to buy cards that would provide its customers with prepaid minutes of phone use.

FDCPA Violation

When Betty Holcomb ran up a credit-card bill and did not pay, the creditor hired the law firm of Freedman Anselmo Lindberg, LLC (“Freedman”), to collect it.

Sentencing Guidelines

In 2010, Wayne Scott was sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment and 36 months of supervised release after entering into a written plea agreement for engaging in two schemes to defraud investors and potential investors.

Immigration – Removal Proceedin

Pedro Rivas-Pena has been a lawful permanent resident of the United States and is a citizen of Mexico.

Immigration – Naturalization Denied

Five years after entering the United States, ostensibly as the unmarried son of a lawful permanent resident, Laith Bijan applied to become a naturalized citizen.

Abuse of Discretion – 6th Amendment Violation

A litigant in a civil case has neither a statutory nor a constitutional right to counsel.

In 2009 Blanchard & Associates, a Chicago law firm, provided legal services to an Indian pharmaceutical company, Lupin Ltd. (“Lupin India”), and its American subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Lupin USA”).

Unemployment Benefits – Collective Bargaining Agreement

For more than half a century, Caterpillar Inc. paid unemployment benefits to laid-off employees at its manufacturing plant in Joliet, Illinois.

ALJ Error – Disability

George Plessinger applied for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act based on his chronic back pain.