Old Debts That Won’t Die By ANDREW MARTIN Published: July 30, 2010 Collecting old consumer debts has become “a labyrinthine industry” involving buyers of secondhand debt, muddled statutes of limitation, lawsuits and, sometimes, abusive tactics according to this New York Times article that provides great insight into the subject.…
Our Chicago noncompete agreement lawyers were interested to read about a significant ruling in a covenant not to compete case. According to insurance industry journal National Underwriter Property & Casualty, a federal district judge for the Northern District of Illinois ruled in June that former employees of CRC Insurance…
NPR reports: Investors who entrusted their money to Bernard Madoff and actually made money may be in for some unwelcome news. According to the Wall Street Journal, the man in charge of recovering money for Madoff’s victims is preparing to file a wave of new lawsuits aimed at wresting money…
NPR reports: A number of recent high-profile lawsuits suggest that companies must preserve important email documents on their computer systems, or risk major court sanctions. Increasingly, companies are turning to outside vendors to ensure they don’t accidentally destroy electronic documents that could come up in a lawsuit DiTommaso Lubin has…
NPR reported a few years ago: New rules take effect that help companies decide how many e-mails and other digital items they have to keep in case someone sues them and demands the documents be brought to court. Even small companies can generate millions of digital documents in a very…
Our Oak Brook, Illinois consumer rights private law firm handles individual and class action predatory lending, unfair debt collection, lemon law and other consumer fraud cases that government agencies and public interest law firms such as the Illinois Attorney General may not pursue. Class action lawsuits our law firm has…
As Illinois non-compete contract lawyers we were interested in a lengthy but substantial ruling from the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in January. In Zambelli Fireworks Mfg. Co. v. Wood, No. 09-1526, 2010 WL 143682 (3d Cir. Jan. 15, 2010), the appellate court upheld a preliminary injunction to…
A recent decision by the Seventh Circuit caught the notice of our Illinois trademark infringement litigators. Schering-Plough Healthcare Products Inc. v. Schwarz Pharma, Inc. et al, Nos. 09-1438, 09-1462, 09-1601 (7th Cir. Oct. 29, 2009) is a dispute between the original maker of a laxative whose patent has expired…
Automated Debt-Collection Lawsuits Engulf Courts By ANDREW MARTIN Published: July 12, 2010 As millions of Americans fall behind on bills, debt collection law firms have been clogging courtrooms with suits seeking repayment. The New York Times reports that debt buyers have flooded the court houses with automated consumer debt…
Our Chicago online business libel attorneys were interested to see a series of articles about several ongoing lawsuits against online review website Yelp.com. According to a March 19 article from the Associated Press, multiple businesses allege the site demanded advertising dollars from them in exchange for control over negative…