Illinois Injunction Law

State of Illinois v. Donald J. Trump

Chicago, Illinois, constitutional law lawyers represented the State of Illinois challenging the power of President. Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not eve... More...

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United States of America v. Lerin E. Hughes

Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking. Lerin E. Hughes, age 25, repeatedly made threatening Facebook posts directed towards an employee of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) who was assigned to investigate allegations of child abuse and neglect. Hughes also sent threatening text messages and e-mail m... More...

$0 (12-04-2023 - IL)

Raymond Stinde v. Joshua Schoenbeck, et al.

East St. Louis, Illinois civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on prisoner civil rights violation theories. Plaintiff Raymond Stinde, an inmate of the Illinois Department of Corrections currently incarcerated at Menard Correctional Center ("Menard"), brings this action for alleged deprivations of his constitutional rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Â§ 1983 for v... More...

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Aurora Pride v. City of Aurora, et al.

Chicago, Illinois civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, which sued Defendant challenging Defendant's special events ordinance and seeking an injunction. Aurora Pride's lawsuit concerns both past and ongoing events. In part, the lawsuit concerns the 2022 Aurora Pride Parade. In 2022, the city temporarily revoked Aurora Pride's permit and charged Aurora Pride certain police over... More...

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Gregory A. Ruggles v. Jacqueline Ruggles, Executor of the Estate of Donald Ruggles

Rock Island, Illinois civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a family company dispute. For the last seven years Don and Greg Ruggles have been the only two shareholders of their family company, a closely held corporation called XPAC. Greg held all the nonvoting shares (totaling 99% of the company's stock), and Don held all the voting shares (the remaining 1%).... More...

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Mary B. Valencia, et al. v. City of Springfield, Illinois

Springfield, Illinois civil litigation lawyer represented defendant accused of attempting to close a group home for people with developmental disabilities in 2016. In 2014, three residents with intellectual and physical disabilities moved into a single- family home on Noble Avenue in Springfield, Illinois, where they received community residential services from a state-licensed provider,... More...

$293000 (07-27-2022 - IL)

United States of America v. Lloyd Robl

<center><h2><center> Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of wire fraud for falsely holding himself out as a licensed and insured asbestos abatement contractor and one count of knowingly releasing asbestos in to the ambient air charges. </h2></center> The Underlying Criminal Activity Mr. Robl worked as a self-employed as... More...

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4SEMO.com, Inc. v. Southern Illinois Storm Shelters, Inc.

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/ephox_images/MelvinPrice-web_4684335743658526040.png"> </center> This appeal involves a long-running trademark dispute over ownership and misuse of a word-mark and logo for below-ground storm shelters. The story begins in 2005 when a Missouri-based home-remodeling firm known as 4SEMO.com Inc. began selling storm shelters manu... More...

$0 (10-08-2019 - IL)

Lajim, LLC v. General Electric Company

<center> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Dirksen_Federal_Building.jpg/200px-Dirksen_Federal_Building.jpg"> </center> Plaintiffs-appellants purchased land near a former General Electric Company manufacturing plant that had operated for sixty years; the plant leached toxic chemicals that seeped into the groundwater. The Illinois... More...

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The Church of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ v. City of Markham, Illinois

<center> <img width="200" src="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/slideshows/slides/red_thing.jpg?itok=hejB-_CT"> </center> In the City of Markham, Illinois, 16018 South Spaulding Avenue (the “Property”) is home to The Church of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We use the word “home” literally and figuratively: the church conve... More...

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United States of America v. Kathleen Sims-Crawford

Chicago, IL - Federal Court Shuts Down Illinois Tax Return Preparer A federal court has permanently barred Kathleen Sims-Crawford and KSC Business Support Services Inc. from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, entered by Judge John J. Tharp Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, also... More...

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Barbara Lyons and Gregory Koger v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois and Cook County

The Cook County jail took books away from Koger while serving a jail sentence given to him by Lyons and did not return During 2013, while Gregory Koger was serving a 300-day sentence in Cook County Jail, Barbara Lyons sent him at least ten books, plus some maga- zines and newspapers. Lyons and Koger contend in this suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 that the Jail violated the First Amendment (applied to ... More...

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Michael Beley, et al. v. City of Chicago

Michael Beley and Douglas Montgomery represent a class of sex offenders who allege that the City of Chicago refused to register them under the Illinois Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) because they could not produce proof of address. If true, that might have violated SORA, because the Act provides a mechanism for registering the homeless. Yet Beley and Montgomery conten... More...

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Lidia Karine Souza and D.F., a minor, v. Attorney General of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III, et al.

Chicago, IL - United States Magistrate Orders Attorney General To Return Child To His Mother Lidia Karine Souza, individually and a the parent and next friend of her son, D.F., a minor, sued the Attorney General of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III, Secretary of DHS Kirstjen Nielsen, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Immi... More...

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Christopher Roberts, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al.

At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (the Agency) and authorized it to place into conservatorship two critical government‐sponsored enterprises—the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as Fannie Mae and 2 No. 17‐1880 Freddie Mac. 12 U.... More...

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Mary B. Valencia v. City of Springfield, Illinois

Plaintiffs allege the City of Springfield (“Springfield” or “the City”) unlawfully discriminated against three disabled individuals when it ruled they could no longer occupy a single-family residence located within 600 feet of an existing disabled group home. Finding that plaintiffs possessed a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits, the district court grant... More...

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John Doe v. Kirsten M. Nielsen

Plaintiff John Doe seeks lawful per-manent residence in the United States under the 2 No. 17-2040 Employment-Based Immigration: Fifth Preference category (“EB-5”). This visa program requires applicants to demon-strate that they have invested or are currently investing capital in a “new commercial enterprise” within the United States. 8 U.S.C. § 1153(b)(5)(A). To that end, Doe inve... More...

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Rashad B. Swanigan v. City of Chicago

While on the lookout for a serial bank robber, Chicago police officers misidentified Rashad Swanigan as the perpetrator, arrested him, and detained him for approximately 51 hours without a probable-cause hearing. He was released when the state prosecutor decided not to press charges, and police later found the true culprit. 2 No. 16-1568 Swanigan sued the officers invol... More...

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In Re: Jimmy John's Overtime Litigation

Plaintiffs‐appellants brought this collective and class action lawsuit against Jimmy John’s1 on behalf of all assistant store managers nationwide for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Although the vast majority of plaintiffs work in stores owned by franchisees, 2 they claim that Jimmy John’s is their joint employer. 1 The Jimmy John’s corp... More...

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Village of Bedford Park, et al. v. Expedia, Inc., et al.

Thirteen Illinois municipalities (“the municipalities”) assert that the Appellees‐Cross‐Appellants, which are online travel agencies (“OTAs”), have withheld money owed to them under their local hotel tax ordinances. The OTAs operate their online travel websites under the “merchant model”; customers pay an OTA directly to reserve rooms at hotels ... More...

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United States of America er rel. United States Food and Drug Administration v. Mary Parrish d/b/a Fort Massac Fish Market

District Court Enters Permanent Injunction Against Illinois Caviar Supplier to Prevent Distribution of Adulterated Food A federal court in Illinois permanently enjoined a Metropolis, Illinois caviar supplier from distributing adulterated food, the Department of Justice announced. In a complaint filed on Sept. 20 at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U... More...

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United States of America v. Mohammad Alkaramla

Philip Bernstein, an attorney appointed under the Criminal Justice Act (“CJA or the Act”) to represent an indigent defendant in federal district court, hired forensic expert Erich Speckin to analyze evidence for the defense. But Bernstein disregarded the Act’s rules and failed to obtain the district court’s preapproval for the hire. 2 No. 16-2191 Instead, he submitted a CJA voucher... More...

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Kathleen Hagan v. Patrick J. Quinn

Plaintiffs are former arbitrators for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. In 2011, plaintiffs and another arbitrator brought a due process action challenging the implementation of House Bill 1698, a workers’ compensation reform statute that had terminated their sixyear appointments under prior law. The district court granted summary judgment for defendants, a... More...

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Tonya Davis v. Ernest B. Fenton, et al.

In 2013 Tonya Davis sued Ernest Fenton (as well as Fenton’s law firms) in federal district court asserting state malpractice and breach of contract claims, as well as federal Fair Housing Act and Civil Rights Act claims, all arising out of Fenton’s representation of Davis in a mortgage foreclosure action in which Davis had lost her home. Davis alleged that Fenton’s representation of her had<... More...

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People Of The State Of Ilinois v. Dicosola

The Attorney General filed against the defendant a complaint that included the following allegations. The defendant sold instructional DVDs, held seminars, andPage 2provided one-on-one consultations regarding bankruptcy and foreclosure laws. In May 2011, the Attorney General received information indicating that the defendant might be in violation of the Consumer Fraud Act (815 ILCS 505/1 et seq. (... More...

$0 (11-23-2015 - IL)

Illinois League of Advocates for the Developmentally Disabled v. Illinois Department of Human Services

This lawsuit charges violations of 42 U.S.C. § 12132, a provision of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act which states that “no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, … be subjected to discrimination by any [public] entity,” and of 2 No. 14-2850 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, which has iden... More...

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Jerry G. Markadonatos v. Village of Woodridge

The plaintiff was arrested in the Village of Woodridge, Illinois, for shoplifting, an Illinois Class A misdemeanor. 720 ILCS 5/16â€25. Upon arriving at the police station he was told that an administrative fee of $30.00 is required upon completion of any custodial arrest/booking procedure. He paid the $30 on the spot, posted bond, and was forthwith released, without be... More...

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Gwendolyn Phillips v. Asset Acceptance, LLC

We have granted the plaintiff's petition for leave to appeal the district court's denial of her motion to certify a class. The plaintiff, a consumer, was sued by Asset Acceptance, a debt collector that is the defendant in this case, for a debt arising from her purchase of natural gas for household use. She riposted with the present suit, which charges that Asset 2 No. 13â€22... More...

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Kraft Foods Group Brands, LLC v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.

This is a trademark infringement suit (see Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. Â§Â§ 1051 et seq.) brought by Kraft against Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (we can disregard the other parties). The district judge granted Kraft a preliminary injunction against the sale by Cracker Barrel Old 2 No. 13â€2559 Country Store of food products to grocery stores under the name Cracker Barrel, which... More...

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Emmanuel Joseph v. Sasafrasnet, LLC

Plaintiff Emmanuel Joseph appeals from the district court's denial of his motion for a preliminary injunction under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act ("PMPAâ€), 15 U.S.C. Â§ 2801 et seq. Joseph operates a British Petroleum service station franchise in Chicago, Illinois. Defendant Sasafrasnet, LLC is an authorized distributor of BP products and is Joseph's franchisor. 2 No. 13-120... More...

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Mary E. Shepard v. Lisa M. Madigan

This is a sequel to our decision in Moore v. Madigan, 702 F.3d 933 (7th Cir. 2012), which invalidated provisions of the Illinois gun law, 720 ILCS 5/24â€1, â€1.6, which, with exceptions mainly for police and other security personnel, hunters, and members of targetâ€shooting clubs, prohibited a person from carrying a gun ready to use (loaded, immediately accessibleâ€”that is, ea... More...

$0 (11-05-2013 - IL)

Julio Ramos, M.D. v. Kewanee Hospital

¶ 1 Plaintiff, Julio Ramos, M.D., filed a three-count second amended complaint against defendant, Kewanee Hospital (the hospital), seeking injunctive relief, a declaration that the hospital improperly summarily suspended his privileges, and damages arising from the summary suspension. Plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his second amended complaint, then filed the current action six weeks later. Foll... More...

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David E. Grochocinski v. Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, L.L.P.

The story of Rumpelstiltskin is about turning straw into gold. The legal malpractice case at the heart of these appeals presents a modern attempt to turn metaphorical straw into real gold. The district court rejected the effort, as do we. This case originated in a contract dispute between CMGT, Inc. and Spehar Capital, a company CMGT hired to help it find financing. Spehar Capital sued CMGT... More...

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Matthew Hale v. United States of America

Chief Judge. Matthew Hale was the Matthew Hale was the head of a group now known as the Creativity Movement. It used to call itself the World Church of the Creator but lost a trademark battle with an organization that had a senior claim to that name. See TE-TA-MA Truth Foundationâ€”Family of URI, Inc. v. World Church of the Creator, 297 F.3d 662 (7th Cir. 2002). Hale then put out a con... More...

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Center for Individual Freedom v. Lisa Madigan

The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, 130 S. Ct. 876 (2010), is best known for striking down as an unconstitutional restriction of free speech the federal law that bans corporations and labor unions from running campaign-related advertisements in the lead-up to an election. That holding largely overshadowed another part of the decision up holding the same law's campaign finance d... More...

$0 (09-10-2012 - IL)

Loretta Capehart v. Melvin C. Terrell

Loretta Capeheart is a tenured Justice Studies professor at Northeastern Illinois University and an outspoken critic of the university on a number of issues, including its failure to hire more Latino professors and its willingness to host military and CIA recruiters at campus job fairs. She believes that university officials have defamed her, refused to make her department chair, and denied her an... More...

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Robert L. Sherman v. State of Illinois

In 2008, the Illinois General Assembly passed a $5 million appropriation for a grant program to be administered by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (the Department). Robert Sherman, an atheist, discovered that among the grants the Department chose to issue was a $20,000 transfer to Friends of the Cross (Friends) for the restoration of an enormous Latin cross know... More...

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American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois

The Illinois eavesdropping statute makes it a felony to audio record "all or any part of any conversationâ€ unless all parties to the conversation give their consent. 720 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/14-2(a)(1). The statute covers any oral communication regardless of whether the communication was intended to be private. Id. 5/14-1(d). The offense is normally a class 4 felony but is elevated... More...

$0 (05-08-2012 - IL)

Deborah Cook v. IPC International Corporation

The plaintiff sued the defendant for sex discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case was tried to a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered by the district court in conformity with the verdict and from the district court's denial of her motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 59 for a new ... More...

$0 (03-08-2012 - il)

ADT Security Services, Inc. v. Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District

This appeal presents issues of state law governing the powers of Illinois fire protection districts. Defendant-appellant Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District (the District) adopted an ordinance in 2009 requiring commercial buildings and multi-family residences to have fire alarms equipped with wireless radio technology that would send alarm signals directly to the central monitoring "boardâ�... More...

$0 (02-27-2012 - IL)