The Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District recently affirmed a jury verdict in excess of a quarter million dollars against the senior pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago, Erwin Lutzer. Lutzer was […]
Michael Segal, convicted of fraud and racketeering, appealed his conviction for a third time in the hopes that a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision on “honest services fraud” would give him a new chance […]
On April 27, 2011, Hard Drive Productions, Inc., a producer of adult entertainment content, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in Chicago against 44 John Doe defendants alleging the defendants violated the federal Copyright Act and […]
On April 26, 2011, the lawyers at DeBlasio Law Group, LLC successfully negotiated a Consent Order with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (“IDFPR“) on behalf of a registered nurse accused of abusing an […]
The Plaintiffs in Groesch v. City of Springfield are white police officers who brought claims of reverse race discrimination against the City of Springfield, Illinois. Each plaintiff resigned from the Springfield police department and was […]
Empress Casino Joliet Corp. v. Blagojevich In a lawsuit filed in Federal Court, four riverboat casinos claim they are victims of a pay-to-play scheme engineered by former Governor Rod Blagojevich and John Johnston, the owner of two Illinois horse-racing tracks. The casinos allege that […]
Travis and Jolene Bonte own a home in Wisconsin. In 2005, they took out a third mortgage with US Bank on their home and used the money, in part, to pay off their other mortgage […]
On March 16, 2011, the FDIC filed a civil lawsuit against former executives of Washington Mutual Bank alleging, among other things, that they engaged in fraud and were grossly negligent in allowing high risk mortgage loans. To read […]
On March 1, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has upheld a decision by a trial court that entered a permanent injunction against Indian Prairie School District No. 204 that essentially allows students […]
In a 25-page opinion issued today, the Illinois Supreme Court has reversed a decision by the Illinois Appellate Court and held that Rahm Emanuel is eligible to run for Mayor of the City of Chicago. A […]
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