MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JEFFREY T. GILBERT , Magistrate Judge . Claimant Dawn Manker ("Claimant") seeks review of the final decision of Respondent Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security ("Commissioner"), denying Claimant's application for Disability Insurance Benefits ("DIB") under Title II of the Social Security Act ("Act"). Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 636(c) and Local Rule 73.1, the parties have consented to the jurisdiction of a United States Magistrate Judge for...
ORDER JEFFREY T. GILBERT , Magistrate Judge . Early this year, the parties issued initial sets of Rule 34 requests for production of documents. The parties have since responded and objected to each other's requests for production, and they met and conferred about those responses and objections. Then, in several status reports and letters, the parties identified and briefed certain disputes regarding the Rule 34 requests for production (and the responses and objections thereto). See [415...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JEFFREY T. GILBERT , Magistrate Judge . Claimant Anthony Tincher ("Claimant") seeks review of the final decision of Respondent Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security ("the Commissioner"), denying Claimant's applications for Disability Insurance Benefits ("DIB") under Title II of the Social Security Act ("the Act") and Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") under Title XVI of the Act. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 636(c) and Local Rule 73.1, the...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RUB N CASTILLO , Chief District Judge . Avison Young-Chicago, LLC ("Plaintiff"), a real estate brokerage firm, brings this action against its former brokers Keith Puritz, Brett Kroner, and Eric Fischer ("Defendants"), alleging violations of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. 1836, and the Illinois Trade Secrets Act, 765 ILL. COMP. STAT. 1065/1-9, as well as claims of unjust enrichment and breach of contract. (R. 13, Am. Compl. 1-5, 8, 52-88.)...
OPINION AND ORDER CHARLES RONALD NORGLE , District Judge . Plaintiff Soarus, L.L.C. ("Soarus") sues Defendants Bolson Materials International Corp. ("Bolson") and Timothy J. Heenan ("Heenan") (collectively, "Defendants") alleging trade secret misappropriation under the Illinois Trade Secrets Act, 765 ILCS 1065/1 et seq.; breach of contract; and unjust enrichment. Before the Court is Defendants' motion for summary judgment. For the following reasons, Defendants' motion is granted. I....
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 2 SIDNEY I. SCHENKIER , Magistrate Judge . Plaintiff Frank Russo ("Claimant" or "Mr. Russo") has moved for summary judgment seeking reversal or remand of the final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security ("Commissioner") denying his claim for Disability Insurance Benefits ("DIB") and Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") (doc. # 18: Pl.'s Mot. for Summ. J. and Mem. in Support of Sum. J.). The Commissioner has filed her own motion seeking affirmance of...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER CHARLES R. NORGLE, SR. , District Judge . I. Introduction Plaintiff Kenyatta Jackson, an inmate in the custody of the Cook County Department of Corrections, has brought this pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983. Plaintiff claims that Defendants, jail officials, violated Plaintiff's constitutional rights by subjecting him to inhumane conditions of confinement. More specifically, Plaintiff alleges that he spent almost two weeks in a cell...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Chief Judge , Rub n Castillo , United States District Court Norma Walker ("Plaintiff") brings this action against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ("Walmart"), Charles Komar & Sons, Inc. ("Komar"), and Macy's Merchandising Group, Inc. ("Macy's") (collectively "Defendants"), alleging strict liability, negligence, and breach of warranty claims related to injuries she suffered when her clothing caught fire. (R. 69, Fourth Am. Compl.) Before the Court are Defendants' motions...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER AMY J. ST. EVE , District Judge . On June 13, 2017, Plaintiff Jane Doe ("Doe") brought the present Amended Complaint against Defendants, Evergreen Park Elementary School District 124 (the "District"), Central Middle School ("Central"), Robert Machak, Rita Sparks, Trayon Sallis, and Paola Polasek (collectively, "Defendants") alleging violations of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 1681 ("Title IX"), 42 U.S.C. 1981 (" 1983"), and...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JORGE L. ALONSO , District Judge . For the following reasons, Plaintiffs' objections [146] to the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge [134] are overruled and the Report and Recommendation is adopted. Background Plaintiffs, Students and Parents for Privacy, an unincorporated association, and five current or prospective students of Township High School District 211, brought this action against the United States Department of Education, the...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER ROBERT M. DOW, JR. , District Judge . In its Complaint, Plaintiff Walgreen Co. ("Plaintiff") brings claims against Defendant Panasonic Healthcare Corporation of North America ("Defendant") for breach of contract (Count I), negligence (Count II), and breach of warranty (Count III). Currently before the Court is Defendant's motion [16] to dismiss Count I of Plaintiff's Complaint for failure to state a claim. For the reasons explained below, Defendant's motion [16]...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOHN ROBERT BLAKEY , District Judge . Petitioner Alonso Campbell brings a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254, challenging his convictions entered in the Circuit Court of Cook County. Petitioner is serving a 28-year sentence for the first-degree murder of Terrance Smith. For the following reasons, this Court denies the Petition, and declines to issues a certificate of appealability. I. Legal Standard Federal review of state-court...
MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER AMY J. ST. EVE , District Judge . On March 6, 2017, the court 1 denied Defendant Westchester Fire Insurance Company's ("Westchester") motion for summary judgment on Counts VI and XIV of Plaintiff Velsicol Chemical's ("Velsicol") Complaint finding that there were genuine issues of fact as to whether the parties' tolling agreement and Illinois statutory law barred Velsicol from bringing claims relating to a remediation site in Chattanooga, Tennessee (the "...
AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY ROBERT W. GETTLEMAN , District Judge . Upon the agreed motion of the government, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 16(d), it is hereby ORDERED: 1. All of the materials provided by the United States in preparation for, or in connection with, any stage of the proceedings in this case (collectively, "the materials") are subject to this protective order and may be used by defendants and defendants' counsel (defined as counsel of record in this case)...
MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER YOUNG B. KIM , Magistrate Judge . Willie Streater seeks supplemental security income ("SSI") based on his claim that he has disabling back pain. After the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration denied his application, Streater filed this suit seeking judicial review. See 42 U.S.C. 405(g). Before the court are the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment. For the following reasons, Streater's motion is denied and the government's is granted:...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER MATTHEW F. KENNELLY , District Judge . Bodum USA, Inc. (Bodum) has sued A Top New Casting, Inc. (A Top) for trade dress infringement. Bodum alleges that A Top infringed its CHAMBORD trade dress by promoting and selling a French press coffeemaker that is confusingly similar to Bodum's own CHAMBORD coffeemaker. A Top has moved to exclude the testimony and survey evidence of Bodum's experts and for summary judgment on three separate grounds: (1) Bodum's claimed...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER MATTHEW F. KENNELLY , District Judge . IPOX Schuster LLC is a small financial services firm, founded by Dr. Josef Schuster, that produces "indexes" of companies with recent initial public offerings (IPOs). An IPO is what takes place when a company starts to sell stock to the public, and an index is a collection of stocks grouped together to measure the performance of a market. IPOX claims that the indexes it offers can serve as a "pure proxy for economic...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOHN ROBERT BLAKEY , District Judge . This qui tam action is brought by Allen Young, Sylviette Young, 1 Teresa Dedina, Vianka Calderon, and D'Ander Hooks-Czapansky (collectively, "Relators") on behalf of the United States against both individuals and corporate entities for different forms of Medicare fraud. [200]. This Court previously dismissed a number of claims and parties from the case, including claims against Defendant Bestmed-Care Services, Ltd. [193]...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER MILTON I. SHADUR , Senior District Judge . On October 26th, 2017 this Court issued its Preliminary Approval Order ("Preliminary Approval") granting an Unopposed Motion for Preliminary Approval of Class Settlement and Approval of Notice Plan, which had in turn been identical in substance to the Preliminary Approval itself. On that same October 26 date this Court granted preliminary approval of a settlement, calling for payment of $295 million in the Settlement...
PROTECTIVE ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY PHILIP G. REINHARD , District Judge . Upon the unopposed motion of the government, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 16(d) and 18 U.S.C. 3771(a)(1) and (8), it is hereby ORDERED: 1. All of the materials provided by the United States in preparation for, or in connection with, any stage of the proceedings in this case (collectively, "the materials") are subject to this protective order and may be used by defendant and defendant's counsel (defined as counsel...
