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Appeals panel: State Farm has no obligation to cover restaurant's losses from Pritzker's COVID closure orders
While the restaurant only closed because the governor ordered them to do so, it was the COVID-19 virus that actually caused the losses, so the steep losses the businesses suffered aren't physical losses covered by insurance policies, state appeals judges ruled -
Corporate Restructuring Webinar Series on October 19, 2021
Corporate Restructuring Webinar Series on October 19, 2021. -
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP: 2021 Hot Topics in Advertising Law
Learn how to mitigate risks associated with consumer-directed health and wellness claims and catch up on new developments and emerging trends in advertising law. -
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP: 3M in the Time of COVID-19: N95 Respirators, Trademark Law and Deterring Bad Actors
In January 2020, 3M had zero trademark litigation relating to 3M-branded N95 respirators. -
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP: To the Lifeboat! A Briefing on Strategies and Tactics to Survive the Retail Bankruptcy Storm
Retailers are dealing with a “perfect storm” of economic and pandemic pressures that have already forced a broad fleet of the nation’s retailers into the protective harbor of the country’s bankruptcy courts. -
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP: Being Visible While Virtual: Having a Career During COVID-19
Join Sumaya Noush as she moderates this virtual Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys (IAHA) panel that discusses the challenges and opportunities that come with working and networking remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP: Understanding DoD’s New Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification for DIB Contractors
The Department of Defense recently announced that suppliers, contractors and subcontractors providing products and services to the defense supply chain will be required to comply with the newly-issued Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), beginning in September 2020. -
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP: Webinar Series - Franchisor Best Practices (April 13-16, 2020)
Faegre Drinker partners Kerry Bundy, Heather Carson Perkins and Brian Schnell head a rotating cast of national legal and franchise thought leaders who will convene via webinar and provide a hard-hitting assessment of how COVID-19 is affecting the franchise industry—and what you can do to confront the challenges it presents. -
IL Supreme Court: No actual harm needed to sue businesses for scanning fingerprints, other biometric IDs
The Illinois Supreme Court says an Illinois privacy law doesn’t require plaintiffs to prove they were actually harmed before suing businesses and others who scan and store their fingerprints or other so-called biometric identifiers. And the decision will give a green light to dozens of class action lawsuits already pending against businesses of all sizes in the state’s courts, with even more likely to follow. -
Property owners in bid rigging class action seek to re-join Madison County following Bathon’s deposition
EDWARDSVILLE – After Madison County was dismissed by the Fifth District Appellate Court from a class action alleging several tax buyers participated in a bid rigging scheme with former Treasurer Fred Bathon, the class of property owners filed a motion to amend their complaint to re-join Madison County to the action. -
Yandle denies tax buyers’ motion to file reply in support of summary judgment in St. Clair County bid rigging suit
U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle denied a group of St. Clair County tax buyers’ request to file a reply in support of their motion for summary judgment while St. Clair County and the former treasurer filed their own separate reply in a suit alleging they participated in a bid rigging scheme. -
Tax buyers seek summary judgment in St. Clair County bid-rigging suit; Residents file individual oppositions
St. Clair County residents alleging several tax buyers participated in a bid-rigging conspiracy filed oppositions to the defendants’ motions for summary judgment. -
Laundry detergent manufacturer accused of false ‘all natural’ labeling seeks to stay case
A laundry detergent manufacturer seeks to stay a pending class action in St. Clair County over its alleged misleading “all natural” labeling while a similar case is litigated in a California federal court.