The city of Chicago will pay more than $3.4 million to resolve a fatal police shooting lawsuit that sparked a review of how the city’s Law Department handles litigation involving allegations of serious officer misconduct, while paying $3 million for another fatal police shooting captured on video that began when a 17-year-old ran from a traffic stop carrying what turned out to be a black iPhone …
A group of managed-care organizations can sue NorthShore University HealthSystem over allegations that they were charged anticompetitive prices for healthcare after the 2000 merger that created the system. An Illinois federal judge largely preserved a class-action lawsuit against NorthShore stemming from the 2000 merger of Evanston (Ill.) Northwestern Healthcare and Highland Park (Ill.) …
Judge allows class-action antitrust suit against NorthShore to proceed Written by Ayla Ellison (Twitter | Google+) | September 13, 2016 | Print | Email U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang denied Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem’s motion for summary judgment Sept. 9 in a class-action antitrust lawsuit, according to the Cook County Record. In the suit, a group of health …
A western Massachusetts bean sprout farm has agreed to pay $78,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged the farm was discharging pollutants into the Connecticut River. The suit alleged that Chang Farms, in Whately, violated the terms of its federal Clean Water Act permit by discharging industrial wastewater into the river.
A federal appeals court has reinstated a putative class action lawsuit filed by two customers of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc., who say they were damaged by the restaurant chain’s 2014 data breach. Scottsdale, Arizona-based P.F.