Seventh Circuit rules that based on unambiguous contract language, a construction contractor owed no duty to plaintiff
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Seventh Circuit Affirms Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction in Illinois
October 27, 2020
Seventh Circuit rules tie between alleged trade secret infringement and Illinois sales too attenuated to support specific personal jurisdiction
Illinois Employers Face New Minimum Wages, Higher Gas Taxes, and New Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Protections
October 22, 2020
Analysis of new guidelines Illinois employers face for increasing minimum wages and gas taxes, as well as workplace harassment rules
Products Liability Trials in the Midst of a Pandemic
October 21, 2020
Recently, Alameda County Superior Court in California conducted a jury trial on a products liability claim for asbestos exposures. The jury selection process was carried out electronically via Zoom, and the entire trial was conducted virtually. Several issues were raised about conducting the trial remotely, including judge, jurors, witness, and/or counsel speaking without muting and […]
Let’s Hash This Out: General Questions About Cannabis
October 20, 2020
As Missouri gears up for medical marijuana to possibly become available this month (with one licensed dispensary already doing a “dry run”), the nation has been slowly addressing the legality of marijuana. Just last month, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (“MORE”) Act was slated to be on the House floor, only to be delayed […]
Illinois appeals court holds that statute on allowing only one substitution of judge applies only to the immediate case
Death, Deletion, and Marital Privilege Won’t Protect Incriminating Text Messages in the Second District
October 13, 2020
Illinois appeals court denies marital privilege of text massages in part due to wife’s original consent stated messages same on both phones
Environmental Attorneys’ Amici Briefs Get It Right
October 8, 2020
HeplerBroom boasts several of Illinois’ premier environmental-law lawyers, and recently those colleagues were asked to prepare an amicus brief on behalf of the Illinois Environmental Regulatory Group in an appeal pending in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Prairie Rivers Network v. Dynegy Midwest Generation LLC, No. 18-3644. The matter involves the non-profit Network’s assertion […]
In Tafoya-Cruz v. Temperance Beer Company, LLC, et al., 2020 Il App (1st) 190606, the Illinois Appellate Court First District recently upheld a trial court’s grant of summary judgment on the plaintiff’s slip-and-fall claim in favor of the defendant’s brewery. The decision is noteworthy because it provides a good example of defeating the argument of […]
Missouri Court of Appeals Hands Down Reminder that Not All Remedial Measures are Inadmissible
October 2, 2020
On August 28, 2014, Patricia Watson suffered multiple facial fractures and other injuries while riding her bicycle in St. Peters, Missouri. Watson was riding on the sidewalk and flipped head-first over the handlebars when the front wheel of her bicycle went into a sump inlet that the City had installed on the sidewalk. Watson sued […]