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Michael Mogan v. Portfolio Media, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois pro se lawyer sued the Defendant on defamation and false light theories. Michael Mogan appeals the district court’s dismissal of his suit against Portfolio Media, the owner of Law360, for defamation and false light. Mogan, who is an attorney, sued Airbnb in California state court on behalf of a client named Veronica McCluskey in 2018. See Mogan v. Sacks, ...
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( 07-16-2025 - IL)

Steve Nikolov v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
Chicago, Illinois consumer credit lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act violation theory....
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( 07-16-2025 - IL)

Jordan Watkins v. Brij Mohan, et al.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represneted the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on deliberate indifference law theory. While he was in federal custody, plaintiff-appellant Jordan Watkins underwent a hernia repair operation at an outside hospital. He began experiencing severe pain and swelling in his groin. Medical staff at the correctional facility allegedly told Watkins that h...
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( 07-16-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Heriberto Carbajal-Flores
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a firearm as an illegal alien in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A). Chicago Police arrested Heriberto Carbajal-Flores after he repeatedly fired his pistol in a city street. Carbajal-Flores was born in Mexico. His mother brought him to the United States in 2002 when he was...
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( 07-16-2025 - IL)

Ferida H. Moy v. Social Security Administration
Chicago, Illinois disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for disability benefits by HHS. Plaintiff Ferida Huskic Moy suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from her harrowing experiences during the brutal wars in the 1990s as the nation of Yugoslavia was breaking up. She applied for disability insurance bene...
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( 07-03-2025 - IL)

End User Consumer Plaintiff class v. Tyson, Inc., et al.
Chicago, Illinois consumer law law class action lawyers represented the Plaintiff in an anti-trust price fixing case. "In re: Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation" refers to a series of class action lawsuits filed against major broiler chicken producers alleging price-fixing and market manipulation. The lawsuits claim that defendants, including companies like Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's Pride,...
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( 07-02-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Miguel Angel Morales-Garcia
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. * * * Under U.S. federal law, it is a crime to distribute illegal drugs, which are referred to legally as controlled substances. Any person who manufactures or distributes these substances can face severe criminal penalties, including an extended pri...
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( 06-27-2025 - il)

Thor Zurbriggen v. Twin Hill Acquisition, Inc. and America Airlines, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a produce liability theory. Eleven employees of American Airlines filed a class action complaint on behalf of themselves and thousands of fellow employees alleging that the new uniforms manufactured by Twin Hill Acquisition Co., Inc. had caused a wide variety of health problems. According to the complaint, the...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Mardi Lane
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering....
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Jesus Zambrano v. City of Joliet and Patrick Schumacher
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theory. Jesus Zambrano was convicted of first-degree murder in an Illinois state court in August 2013, but on appeal the Illinois Appellate Court agreed that the trial court erred in failing to give a jury instruction on accomplice liability. A second trial ensued in which...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Anthony B. Sullers, Sr. v. International Union Elevator Constructors, Local 2
Chicago, Illinois employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a job discrimination claim. Anthony Sullers, Sr., an elevator mechanic who is African American, brought this action against his union, the International Union of Elevator Constructors, Local 2 (“IUEC” or “the Union”). He alleged that IUEC had breached its duty of fair representation in its handling of his allega...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Mary Ann Arnold v. United Airlines, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a job discrimination theory. Mary Ann Arnold brought this action against her former employer, United Airlines (“United” or “the Company”), alleging unlawful discrimination and retaliation under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”) and the Illinois Human Rights Act (“IHRA”). Ms. Arnold also ...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Andrea Ratfield, et a. v. United States Drug Testing Laboratories, Inc., et al.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury RICO claim lawyers represented the Plaintiffs and Defendants. Plaintiffs, comprised of Andrea Ratfield, ten other pilots, a physician, a nurse, and an attorney, were all required to undergo alcohol testing to maintain their employment and professional licenses. Here, the testing came in the form of a dried blood spot test developed by United States Drug T...
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( 06-13-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Falandis Russell and Terrance Williams
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to obstruct commerce by robbery and multiple counts of obstruction of commerce by robbery. For nearly a year and a half, Russell and Williams committed a series of armed commercial robberies throughout Chicago. They were eventually indicted for conspiracy to obstruct commerce by robbery in v...
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( 06-11-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Mona Ghosh
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Health Care Fraud Suburban Chicago Physician Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Health Care Fraud A federal jury has convicted a man of trafficking six rifles, in...
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( 06-10-2025 - IL)

In re MARRIAGE OF: ANNE MARIE MALONEY and EDWARD J. MALONEY
Chicago, Illinois family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce. The parties were married on April 1, 2006, and had three children that were born during the marriage: K.M (born in 2006), L.M. (born in 2009), and C.M. (born in 2012). On September 6, 2016, Anne filed a petition for dissolution of marriage. On January 26, 2017, Howard Rosenberg was appointed guardian ad litem to r...
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( 05-09-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Kevin Cruz
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Cyberstalking Victim He Met Online Suburban Chicago Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Cyberstalking Victim He Met Online A suburban Chicago man ...
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( 05-01-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Hassan Abdellatif a/k/a “Eric”
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defrauding Low-Income Food Program for Women and Children Owner of Chicago-Area Convenience Stores Convicted of Defrauding Low-Income Food Program for Women and Children ...
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( 04-30-2025 - IL)

State of Illinois v. Laroy Battle
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Laroy Battle, age 19, shoot and killed two teens in the 7900-block of South Luella Avenue around 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 20. Jasean Francis, 17, was shot in the back, chest and left hand and taken to University of Chicago Hospital, where he died. Charles Riley, 1...
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( 04-18-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Gilberto Almanza
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with possessing, selling and distributing drugs. ...
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( 04-17-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Mark Sorensen
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating Anti-Kickback law. This case tests the outer boundaries of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b), which prohibits payments in return for referrals of patients for medical care that will be reimbursed under the federal Medicare or Medicaid programs. The Anti-Kickback Statute app...
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( 04-16-2025 - IL)

The People of the State of Illinois v. Ramzallen Hankerson
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a defaced firearm and aggravated assault. Following a jury trial, defendant Ramzallen Hankerson was found guilty of possession of a defaced firearm and aggravated assault and sentenced to two years' probation on each charge, to be served concurrently. The jury also acquitted Hankerson on anothe...
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( 03-14-2025 - IL)

The People of the State of Illinois v. Tavion Hodges
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful use or possession of a weapon by a felon. At trial, evidence established that officers curbed defendant's vehicle in Chicago on September 6, 2021. As officers removed defendant from the vehicle, they saw what appeared to be a handgun "falling from his person." A firearm was recovered between "defend...
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( 03-10-2025 - IL)

The People of the State of Illinois v. Deon Moore
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. Following a bench trial, defendant Deon Moore was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and unlawful use or possession of a weapon by a felon (UUWF) and sentenced to consecutive terms of 14 and 13 years in prison, respectively. On appeal, he contends the court abused its discretion i...
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( 03-10-2025 - IL)

The People of the State of Illinois v. Rogelio Gomez
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful use of a weapon for carrying an "uncased, loaded, and immediately accessible" firearm. At around 11:30 p.m. on February 17, 2023, Officer Bernard Hernandez, Officer Jason Bulkley, and Officer Anthony Rosen were patrolling the Little Village neighborhood in a marked police squad car. It was a cold F...
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( 02-21-2025 - IL)

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