MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RUBEN CASTILLO, District Judge. Appellant Bruce Belson ("Belson" or "Appellant") brings this appeal from an order of the Bankruptcy Court sustaining the Debtor/Appellee Olson Rug Company's ("Appellee") Objection to Proof of Claim No. 21 Filed by Bruce Belson, which denied priority status to Appellant's Claim pursuant to 11 U.S.C. 507(a)(4) and reduced the amount of Appellant's Claim pursuant to 11 U.S.C. 502(b)(7). The appeal is timely before this Court....
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RUBEN CASTILLO, District Judge. Plaintiff Santanu De ("De") brings this suit against the City of Chicago ("the City") alleging illegal discrimination on the basis of race in violation of 42 U.S.C. 1981 and illegal discrimination on the bases of national origin and sex in violation of the Illinois Human Rights Act ("IHRA"), 775 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/1-101 et seq. (R. 23, Second Am. Compl.) Presently before the Court is the City's motion for summary judgment...
JOINT MOTION FOR ENTRY OF FINAL CONSENT JUDGMENT Plaintiff Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC, and Defendant Everstrong Products Co., Ltd., d/b/a Everstrong Commercial Products, jointly inform the Court that they have reached an agreement with respect to a full and final compromise and settlement of all matters and all causes of action related to the above-captioned lawsuit, and accordingly respectfully request entry of a Final Consent Judgment in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A....
JOINT MOTION FOR ENTRY OF FINAL CONSENT JUDGMENT Plaintiff Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC, and Defendant Everstrong Products Co., Ltd., d/b/a Everstrong Commercial Products, jointly inform the Court that they have reached an agreement with respect to a full and final compromise and settlement of all matters and all causes of action related to the above-captioned lawsuit, and accordingly respectfully request entry of a Final Consent Judgment in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A....
PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ROBERT M. DOW, Jr., District Judge. NOW COMES the Plaintiff, JAIME MARTINEZ ("Plaintiff"), by and through his attorneys, ED FOX & ASSOCIATES, and for his Motion for Entry of Judgment hereby states as follows: BACKGROUND 1. On September 28, 2011, Plaintiff filed his complaint alleging claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") for discrimination and failure to provide a reasonable accommodation. See D.E. #1. Plaintiff's complaint...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER HARRY D. LEINENWEBER, District Judge. Before the Court is Defendant Worldwide Asset Purchasing II, LLC's (hereinafter, "WAP II") Motion to Dismiss. For the following reasons, the Court grants the Motion. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Shirley Davidson (hereinafter, "Davidson" or "Plaintiff") is a resident of Illinois. On November 30, 2007, Defendant Worldwide Asset Purchasing, LLC ("WAP I") sued Davidson to collect "an alleged debt incurred for personal, family or...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GARY FEINERMAN, District Judge. Plaintiff California Northern Railroad Company filed this diversity suit against Defendant Gunderson Rail Services, LLC, alleging that Gunderson breached its contractual duty to defend and indemnify California Northern in Walters v. The Belt Railway Co. of Chicago, No. 2006 L 7349 (Cir.Ct.Cook Cnty., Ill., filed July 13, 2006), a tort action brought against California Northern, Gunderson, and others in Illinois state court. Doc....
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, District Judge. SMS Assist L.L.C. ("SMS") is a company that provides maintenance services to corporate clients by contracting with, and supervising, third parties who perform those services. In October 2008, Family Dollar Stores, Inc. ("Family Dollar") hired SMS to manage snow removal and de-icing services ("snow removal services") at Family Dollar stores across the nation during the 2008-2009 snow season. SMS, in turn, contracted with...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER MARVIN E. ASPEN, District Judge. Plaintiff Malcolm Hamilton ("Plaintiff" or "Hamilton") originally filed his complaint in the Circuit Court of Cook County. Defendant United Airlines ("Defendant" or "United") timely removed. Presently before us is Plaintiff's Motion to Remand (Dkt. No. 15), filed on September 20, 2012, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1447(c). 1 The Federal Airline Deregulation Act ("FADA") explicitly preempts state regulation "related to" an airline's "...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER AMY J. ST. EVE, District Judge. Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5) and (b)(6), the parties in this lawsuit filed a joint motion for relief from the November 13, 2012 judgment in which a jury found in favor of Plaintiff Karolina Obrycka. On December 7, 2012, the Court held a motion hearing on the parties' joint motion and granted the University of Chicago Mandel Legal Aid Clinic's and Northwestern University School of Law MacArthur Justice...
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED JOINT MOTION FOR ENTRY OF FINAL CONSENT JUDGMENT Plaintiff Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC, and Defendant Everstrong Products Co., Ltd., d/b/a Everstrong Commercial Products, jointly inform the Court that they have reached an agreement with respect to a full and final compromise and settlement of all matters and all causes of action related to the above-captioned lawsuit, and accordingly respectfully request entry of a Final Consent Judgment in the form attached hereto...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOHN W. DARRAH, District Judge. Certain Defendants 1 — Miles Lustig ("Miles"), Grant Lustig ("Grant"), and Lustig Capital, LLC — move to dismiss Count III of the Amended Complaint filed by Plaintiffs, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. For the reasons presented below, Defendants' Motion to Dismiss is granted. BACKGROUND Defendants removed the instant action from the Circuit Court...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RUBEN CASTILLO, District Judge. Mark Price ("Plaintiff") brings this class action against NCR Corporation ("Defendant") alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.; the Illinois Minimum Wage Law ("IMWL"), 820 Ill. Comp. Stat. 105/1 et seq.; and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act ("IWPCA"), 820 Ill. Comp. Stat. 115/1 et seq. (R. 1, Compl.) Presently before the Court is Defendant's motion to compel...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER VIRGINIA M. KENDALL, District Judge. Plaintiff Guaranteed Rate, Inc. ("Guaranteed Rate") filed this suit against twenty-six individuals and entities (collectively "Defendants"), alleging that Defendants conspired to defraud Guaranteed Rate in connection with the sale of real estate at a condominium development in Chicago, Illinois, known as Vision on State ("the Development"). Specifically, Guaranteed Rate alleges Defendants artificially inflated sale prices of...
MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE AND SALE SIDNEY L. SCHENKIER, Magistrate Judge. NOW COMES the Plaintiff, PNC Bank, National Association, successor in interest via merger to National City Bank, successor in interest via merger to Mid America Bank, FSB, by its attorneys Crowley & Lamb, P.C., and moves the Court for the entry of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale in its favor and against the Defendant(s): 1. City of Chicago and as grounds thereof state: As appears from the Affidavit of...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JAMES F. HOLDERMAN, Chief Judge: Plaintiffs Isiah Elder, Donald Hart, and Timothy Wharton have brought a class action against Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC (collectively "Comcast"). The plaintiffs allege that Comcast violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") (Count I), the Illinois Minimum Wage Law ("IMWL"), 820 ILCS 105 (Count II), and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act ("IWPCA"), 820 ILCS 115 (Count...
PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW Now comes the Plaintiff Jerome McNeal, through his counsel Michael D. Robbins & Associates and the Law Offices of Jeffrey J. Neslund, and moves this Honorable Court to enter a judgment as a matter of law at the close of evidence pursuant to Federal Rule of Procedure 50(a) as to Plaintiff's claims for (1.) illegal entry by Defendant Barroso and (2.) illegal search by Defendant Barroso. Plaintiff is entitled to judgment as a matter of law on...
OPINION AND ORDER WILLIAM T. HART, District Judge. Class action plaintiff Keith Baxter alleges that he purchased a new 2006 Kawasaki Vulcan Nomad 1600 motorcycle (the "Vulcan") that has an odometer which overstates the miles actually ridden. Named as defendants are Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. ("KMC"), Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. ("KHI"), and Does 1-3. 1 KHI designed and manufactured the Vulcan. KMC imports and distributes motorcycles produced by KHI. In Counts I and II of the Second...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOHN J. THARP, JR., District Judge. A group of states bordering the Great Lakes seeks an order requiring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago ("District") to take action — including immediately creating physical barriers in the waterways connecting Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River Basin — to prevent bighead and silver carp (collectively, "Asian carp") from migrating into Lake Michigan. The...
CONSENT ORDER OF RECEIVERSHIP SAMUEL DER-YEGHIAYAN, District Judge. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED: 1. Pursuant to the provisions 15 U.S.C. 687c, this Court hereby takes exclusive jurisdiction of Hispania Private Equity, L.P, ("Hispania"), and all of its assets and property, of whatever kind and wherever located, and the United States Small Business Administration ("SBA") is hereby appointed Receiver ("the Receiver") of Hispania to serve without bond until further order of...
