A settlement of a class-action lawsuit that took more than seven years was recently settled in Madison County, Illinois after Tyson Foods agreed to donate chickens to various food banks around Illinois. The poultry donation will equal a retail value of up to $2.3 million. In addition to the donations…
Chicago is one of the nation’s trucking hubs. Chicagoans are used to seeing tractor trailers on area highways and roads at any time of the day. But these trucks are becoming a less common sight as lags in the economy are forcing more Chicago and Illinois trucking companies to close.…
If the Chicago Cubs do win the 2009 World Series, it might have been predicted by a computer simulation which explores baseball strategies and their effect on the game’s outcome. In 1958 a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a program to investigate whether the sacrifice bunt…
Two families brought a lawsuit on behalf of oil refinery workers killed in a 1995 fire at the Clark oil refinery in Blue Island, Illinois. Each decedent’s estate received payment from Clark Refining under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. The current case involves a liability suit the decedents’ widows filed…
In a case involving injury to a 7 year-old who was kicked in the back by a horse, the Illinois Appellate Court decided the question of whether contributory fault was a valid defense to the lawsuit. The plaintiff brought this personal injury case seeking compensation under the Illinois Animal Control…
In Illinois and other states, the collateral source rule is a much debated legal issue and deals with whether or not a plaintiff in a personal injury case can recover money for their medical bills, including those paid by their insurance. The Illinois Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wills v.…
On June 26, 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the District of Columbia’s total ban on handguns violates the Second Amendment and its protection of an individual’s right to possess firearms. D.C. law bans handgun possession by making it illegal to carry an unregistered firearm and prohibits registration of…