This one’s just in time for the annual blizzard of new gym memberships and personal training sign-ups each January seems to bring. Cox v. US Fitness, LLC d/b/a Fitness Formula Club, 2013 IL App (1st) 122442, examines whether a gym (FFC) membership agreement’s liability release is enforceable against a gym patron who sued after she broke her wrist while attempting an exercise during …
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Illinois Court Tackles Civil Conspiracy and Consumer Fraud in Interior Design Spat
Carol Studios, Inc. v. Hong, 2013 IL App 122293-U (1st Dist.2013) provides a good summary of Illinois pleading requirements for consumer fraud, civil conspiracy and unjust enrichment in a construction contract dispute involving commercial property. Facts: Over a span of two years, the owners of a mixed-use property in Skokie, Illinois hired the plaintiff interior design firm along …
Illinois Wage Payment Act Applies to Ohio Resident -IL 2d Dist.
Elsener v. Brown, 2013 IL App (2d) 120209 (Sept. 2013) examines when personal liability will attach to a corporate officer under Section 13 of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, 820 ILCS 115/1 et seq. (the “Wage Act”) where that corporate officer lives out-of-state. Facts: After plaintiff sold the business journal he founded to an Ohio corporation, plaintiff signed a three-year …
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