Marianna Wharry

January 21, 2025 | Law.com

Last week, the state high court affirmed the jury's verdict, finding the evidence presented could lead a juror to reasonably infer that Furr's failure to keep a proper lookout and/or failure to yield to another car was a proximate cause of the accident.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

January 16, 2025 | Law.com

Uber alleges that new regulations require it to "'prominently display'" and use "'design techniques intended to draw the eye'" to certain information on the app and provide purportedly inaccurate messaging that "Uber does not sufficiently compensate its drivers,'" the complaint said.

By Marianna Wharry

5 minute read

January 14, 2025 | Law.com

An attorney began working at a Michigan-based firm in July 2020, based on an agreement to seek admission to practice law in the state. His firm later discovered that he lied to its managing partners and clients about his admission to the Michigan State Bar for one year.

By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

January 13, 2025 | Law.com

"These are serious breaches of privacy, and it frankly shocks the court that Mr. Kretchmar 'had either forgotten or never noticed that the 677 pages revealed anyone’s' [personal identifying information] or nude photographs," U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis for the Northern District of Illinois wrote in an order sanctioning a Chicago-area attorney.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

January 10, 2025 | Law.com

An Illinois federal judge said the business cannot rely on an expired settlement agreement between it and the baseball team to compel arbitration.

By Marianna Wharry

2 minute read

October 08, 2024 | Law.com

"All things being considered, fifty custodians certainly provide a reasonable opportunity—at the very least—for the plaintiffs to reasonably investigate their case. Adding three or four in-house counsel to that list is out of proportion to the needs of the case. The aphorism, 'the book is not worth the candle' is not out of place here," wrote U.S. District Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole for the Northern District of Illinois.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

October 04, 2024 | Law.com

A Chicago federal judge preliminarily approved a settlement providing $10 million in increased pension payments for Citgo retirees.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

October 04, 2024 | Law.com

"If respondent's colleagues had believed him, and had hired him based on his statements during the interview, it would have damaged the criminal justice system," the hearing board's report said.

By Marianna Wharry

5 minute read

October 04, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"'Stereophonic' is undoubtedly a play based on plaintiffs' memoir 'Making Rumours' because substantial similarities exist between the two works, a reality that has been independently confirmed by those familiar with plaintiffs' book who have also had the opportunity to review the play," the complaint said.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

October 01, 2024 | Law.com

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York, among others, voiced their support for the amended standard requiring schools continue to improve access to legal education and the legal profession for all qualified aspiring lawyers.

By Marianna Wharry

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