U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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Fudge mint cookie maker hit with lawsuit that says there's no fudge or mint
ROCKFORD, Ill. (Legal Newsline) - Dollar General is one of the latest companies to face a class action lawsuit that alleges the fudge in its snacks is not real fudge. -
Reynolds wants class action over 'Foil Made in U.S.A.' claim tossed
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – Reynolds Consumer Products is asking a federal judge to throw out a class action lawsuit that alleges its foil products aren’t made in the U.S.A. -
McDonald's sued over PFAS in food packaging
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A class action lawsuit claims McDonald’s food is not “unfit for human consumption.” -
Lawsuit alleges Rust-Oleum's RockSolid fails to live up to advertising
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Neil Stevens filed a federal class action complaint on November 5 in the Northern District of Illinois against Rust-Oleum Corporation over acrylic coating products. -
Plaintiff feels let down by chocolate in Haagen-Dazs
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (Legal Newsline) -- A woman is suing the company that makes Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars, claiming it advertises chocolate that is not actual chocolate. -
Lawsuit: Selsun Blue can damage, break hair
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – Selsun Blue’s maximum strength anti-dandruff shampoo contains a toxic chemical that irritates scalps, a class action lawsuit claims. -
Edelson lawsuit: Injury lawyer Girardi, Real Housewives star wife embezzled plane crash settlement money to fund 'lavish' habits
The lawsuit asserts L.A. personal injury lawyer Tom Girardi and his wife, Erika Jayne, of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, of converting settlement funds intended for the families of the victims of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash, to pay for "outrageous" personal spending practices. -
Payroll company faces lawsuit for allegedly storing fingerprint, palm scans data
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) — A New York-based human resources and payroll provider faces a class action complaint alleging it is illegally collecting and storing employees' biometric data through the use of timekeeping equipment that captures fingerprint and palm scans. -
Tropicana sued over alleged presence of artificial flavors
CHICAGO – Tropicana Manufacturing Co. Inc. deceives consumers by failing to disclose artificial flavors in its juice drinks, a federal class-action lawsuit alleges. -
Illinois resident affected by CafePress data breach files suit
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A customer of the world's largest online gift shop alleges he and other consumers were exposed to credit card theft after a data breach earlier this year. -
Attorneys target Carl's Golfland data breach
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A Illinois man is suing an online retailer alleging that his personal information was compromised in a website breach and his credit card was used to make unauthorized purchases. -
Man alleges lawsuit was dismissed because Chicago firm routinely failed to appear in court
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A Michigan man alleges his lawsuit was dismissed because a Chicago-based lawyer and law firm routinely failed to appear in court. -
Stockholders sue Boeing following deadly crashes
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A Boeing investor has filed a securities class action against the company following two deadly airplane crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia. -
Nissan seeks to dismiss class action over defective transmission allegations
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – An auto maker is seeking to dismiss a class action lawsuit over allegations that certain years of Nissan Altimas have defective transmissions. -
Lawsuit over penis cream Sensum+ doesn't 'even make sense,' drug company says
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – Pending in Chicago federal court is a drug company's frank response to a doctor who is suing over the marketing of Sensum+. -
Consumer alleges headboard purchased from Wayfair was infested with bedbugs
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – An Illinois consumer alleges a headboard he purchased from an online home goods company was infested with bedbugs. -
Former professor challenges American Bar Association's accreditation of New York school
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A former professor of State University of New York Buffalo Law School is seeking a judgment that the American Bar Association violated its duty to report the school's compliance status. -
Trial lawyers: EPA admission of fault in Sterigenics emissions measuring won't matter to lawsuits vs company
As federal environmental regulators reassess their controversial measurements of emissions from the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook, a group of lawyers representing Willowbrook residents are continuing unfazed in their lawsuits against the company, based largely on findings in a federal report that relied heavily on the allegedly faulty data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
Sterigenics: Lawsuits asking courts to rewrite federal clean air rules, based on a 'flawed' report
Saying plaintiffs are asking the courts to essentially rewrite federal environmental laws and regulatory rules based on a single report issued by a federal agency relying on faulty data, medical device sterilizer Sterigenics has asked a federal judge to corral a stampede of lawsuits that have hit the courts in recent weeks amid a blizzard of media reports asserting the company’s use of a key sterilizing agent at its facility in suburban Willowbrook could cause cancer. -
Illinois woman alleges LaCroix's all-natural claims are false
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – An Illinois consumer alleges that LaCroix sparkling water is mislabeled as all-natural.