MEMORANDUM AND ORDER REAGAN, District Judge: A. Introduction On November 6, 2009, Plaintiff, Walsh Chiropractic, Ltd. ("Walsh"), filed this putative class action in the Third Judicial Circuit Court in Madison County, Illinois, alleging various breach of contract theories and a violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act (ICFA), 815 ILCS 505/1 et seq., (Doc. 9-1). On December 17, 2009, Walsh filed its First Amended Class Action Complaint, adding two...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER J. PHIL GILBERT, District Judge. This matter comes before the Court on defendant Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.'s ("Syngenta"), Motion to Dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) (Doc. 22). Because parts of the motion request dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) is also relevant. The plaintiffs have responded to the motion (Doc. 68). In addition, Syngenta has submitted supplemental authority (Doc. 102),...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER J. PHIL GILBERT, District Judge. This matter comes before the Court on Defendant National Maintenance & Repair, Inc.'s (hereinafter "National Maintenance") Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 25) and Memorandum (Doc. 26) in support thereof. Plaintiff Clifford Slightom (hereinafter "Slightom") filed a Response (Doc. 30) thereto, to which National Maintenance filed a Reply (Doc. 31). For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS the instant motion. BACKGROUND I. Facts In...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MURPHY, District Judge: I. INTRODUCTION This matter is before the Court on the motion for summary judgment brought by Defendant/Cross-Claim Plaintiff/Cross-Claim Defendant Schneider National Carriers, Inc. ("Schneider") (Doc. 68). This case arises out of a major traffic accident that occurred on April 21, 2009, on Interstate 57 in Franklin County, Illinois, near the town of Benton. According to Illinois State Policeman Robert Ventura, Jr., a certified accident...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MURPHY, District Judge. I. INTRODUCTION The named Plaintiffs in this case, Robert Westefer, Mark Von Perbandt, Alejandro Villazana, Armando Tinajero, Corey A. Taylor, Michael Sparling, Joe Sorrentino, Anibal Santiago, Tyshawn Ross, Vincente Rodriguez, Edward Rodriguez, Vincent Reyna, Alex Muller, William Lasley, Ted Knox, Michael Johnson, Eugene Horton, George Harper, Timothy Hall, John Gill, Larry Gambrell, Larry Foutch, Robert Felton, Kennard Combs, Maurice...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MURPHY, District Judge: Before the Court is Crossclaim Defendant Rogers Cartage Company's (Rogers Cartage) Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 774, 782 and 791) the Amended Crossclaims filed by Crossclaim Plaintiff's Pharmacia Corporation and Solutia, Inc. (Doc. 780) (collectively, Pharmacia), Cerro Flow Products, Inc. (Doc. 781) (Cerro), and ExxonMobil Oil Corporation (Doc. 789) (ExxonMobil). Also before the Court is Pharmacia's Motion to Strike (Doc. 794) the two Statements of...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MURPHY, District Judge: I. INTRODUCTION This case is before the Court on a motion for summary judgment by Defendant Coca-Cola Company ("Coca-Cola") (Doc. 56). The Court has outlined the nature of the claims asserted in this case and the procedural history of the case in earlier orders in this case, see, e.g., Kremers v. Coca-Cola Co., Civil No. 09-333-GPM, 2009 WL 2365613, at *1 (S.D.Ill. July 24, 2009), and the Court sees no reason to repeat that recitation here....
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MURPHY, District Judge: I. INTRODUCTION This case, which comes to the Court via removal from state court, is before the Court sua sponte on the issue of federal subject matter jurisdiction. See Johnson v. Wattenbarger, 361 F.3d 991 , 992 (7th Cir.2004) (a district court's "first duty in every suit" is "to determine the existence of subject-matter jurisdiction"); Asperger v. Shop Vac Corp., 524 F.Supp.2d 1088 , 1091 (S.D.Ill.2007) (quoting Hay v. Indiana...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MURPHY, District Judge. I. INTRODUCTION This matter is before the Court on the motion brought by Plaintiffs Gerald Morisch and Bette Morisch to enforce a settlement agreement that they entered into with Defendant Robert D. Kreisman, P.C. ("Kreisman"), d/b/a Kreisman Law Offices (Doc. 169). In this case Mr. and Mrs. Morisch assert claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"), 28 U.S.C. 1346(b), 2671-2680, for, respectively, negligence and loss of...
