Illinois Daubert Law
United States of America v. Gabriel Bush
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> This case offers a window into the viâ€<br> olent and ruthless world of the Hobos street gang, which opâ€<br> erated in Chicago from 2004 to 2013. With the credo, "The<br> 2 Nos. 1... More...
$0 (12-11-2021 - IL)United States of America v. William Ford
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> This case offers a window into the viâ€<br> olent and ruthless world of the Hobos street gang, which opâ€<br> erated in Chicago from 2004 to 2013. With the credo, "The<br> 2 Nos. ... More...
$0 (12-11-2021 - IL)United States of America v. Byron Brown
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> This case offers a window into the viâ€<br> olent and ruthless world of the Hobos street gang, which opâ€<br> erated in Chicago from 2004 to 2013. With the credo, "The<br> 2 ... More...
$0 (12-10-2021 - IL)United States of America v. Ernesto Godinez
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a murder charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Law enforcement officers entered<br> a southwest Chicago neighborhood one night to replace<br> tracking devices on the cars of several Latin Saints gang memâ€<br> bers. Shortly after the officers arrived, they came under gunâ€<br> ... More...
$0 (11-16-2021 - IL)Billie Vargas Love v. United States of America
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a Federal Tort Claims Act claim </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Louis Vargas received extensive medical care from the Veterans Administration. He argues in this suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. <br> §§ 2671–80, that a nurse employed by the VA was negligent ... More...
$0 (11-13-2021 - IL)United States of America v. William Julius
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of arson charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> A federal grand jury charged Julius with two counts of arson for setting fire to a building where his ex-girlfriend was <br> living, twice in the same night. Julius went to trial on both <br> counts. <br> The evidence at trial ... More...
$0 (09-29-2021 - IL)Herbert Whitlock v. Charles Brueggemann
On July 6, 1986, Karen and Dyke Rhodes were found murdered in their home in Paris, Illinois. They had been stabbed numerous times and their home had been set afire. From the ashes of these gruesome murders rises another, deeply disturbing, allegation: that police and a prosecutor conspired to frame two innocent men of these crimes, and over the course of the next two decades, state officials conti... More...
$0 (05-30-2012 - IL)Raymond B. Bielskis v. Louisville Ladder, Inc.
high mini-scaffold and injuring his hand and knee, Raymond B. Bielskis brought this product liability action against Louisville Ladder, Incorporated, the manufacturer of the scaffold. The district court granted Louisville Ladder's motion to bar the trial testimony of Bielskis's expert witness, Neil J. Mizen. Subsequently, the district court granted Louisville Ladder's motion for summary judgment a... More...
$0 (11-18-2011 - IL)Troy Craig Burton v. Officer Craig Burton
Troy Banister sued Chicago police officers Craig Burton and Marc Moore along with the City of Chicago (we'll refer to all the defendants, collectively, as "the Cityâ€) alleging deprivation of his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A jury returned a verdict in favor of the City. Banister now appeals the admission of the testimony of one of the City's main witnesses, the City's failure to ... More...
$0 (02-14-2011 - IL)Timothy Myers v. Illinois Central Railroad Company
For almost thirty years, Timothy Myers worked for the Illinois Central Railroad Company. The work was physically demanding and over the course of his career Myers suffered several injuries, including cumulative trauma disorders that eventually forced him to retire. He sued the Railroad claiming that these disorders were caused by its negligence. Before trial, Myers offered reports from three medic... More...
$0 (12-15-2010 - IL)Heidi Happel v. Walmart Stores, Inc.
Heidi Happel was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1990. After the diagnosis, she did not experience any symptoms of the disease until August 1993, when a Walmart pharmacy negligently filled—and Heidi ingested—a prescription with Toradol, a medication to which Heidi was allergic. Heidi believed that the medication, which triggered a severe reaction, was the impetus for a rapid dec... More...
$0 (04-28-2010 - IL)Michael Lewis and Tammy Livingston v. Citgo Petroleum Corporation
Plaintiffs-appellants Michael Lewis and Tammy Livingston claim to have been injured when they were exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas while working at a refinery operated by the defendant, CITGO Petroleum Corp. They sued CITGO under theories of negligence, which required them to prove that the exposure caused compensable injuries. On the defendant's motion for summary judgment, the district court fou... More...
$0 (04-07-2009 - IL)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?submit=showbr&shofile=05-3911_022.pdf" target="_new">Terry L. Winters v. Fru-Con, Inc.</a>
<P>Terry Winters' hand was severed at the wrist while he was working at a food processing plant. He reached settlements with various defendants but proceeded with his claims against Fru-Con, the company that installed the equipment that injured him. Winters appeals the exclusion of his experts' testimony and the entry of judgment in Fru-Con's favor. We affirm. <P> I. HISTORY <P> A. Factu... More...
$0 (08-27-2007 - IL)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=03-1036.PDF" target="_new">Clyde Ammons v. Aramark Uniform Services, Inc.</a>
<P>Clyde Ammons sued his former employer, Aramark Uniform Services, Inc. ("Aramark"), for terminating his employment in violation of the Americans with the Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq. (the "ADA"). At the close of discovery the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Eastern Division) granted summary judgment in favor of Aramark. Ammons appeals from <P>2 No. ... More...
$0 (05-26-2004 - IL)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=02-1041.PDF" target="_new">Loretta M. Aliotta v. National Railroad Passenger Corp., et al.</a>
Loretta Aliotta, widow and executor of the estate of Joseph Aliotta, appeals an adverse judgment in a wrongful death lawsuit against the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), the Illinois Central Railroad Company (IC) and Gary Gilmer, an Amtrak engineer. A jury verdict was entered against her in the Northern District of Illinois after the case was removed to federal court by Amtr... More...
$0 (01-03-2003 - IL)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=01-1427" target="_new">Virginia Fogle, et al. v. William Chevrolet/Geo, Inc.</a>
After obtaining a favorable settlement of their consumer fraud lawsuit against the defendant, an automobile dealer, in which they had charged violations of the federal truth- in-lending and odometer-tampering statutes as well as various Illinois state laws in the sale of two cars to them, the plaintiffs asked the district court to award them $44,000 (we are rounding off to the nearest $1... More...
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