Let’s see. 12 court hearings over a year-and-a-half devoted entirely to discovery disputes. 7 missed deadlines – 3 of which were “final” – and one of those 3 was even “final, final, final, final, final!”. And still – no discovery compliance from the plaintiff. There was even an intermediate contempt sanction of a $500 fine and another court order …
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BMW Dealership Defeats Fraud Suit On Statute of Limitations Grounds (ND IL)
Occasionally, I’ll have a case that appears to be governed by two or more conflicting statutes of limitations. For example, one statute will give a plaintiff four years to file suit while an apparently equally applicable one compresses the time to sue to two years. As plaintiff, I usually (not always) argue for the longer limitations period to apply, while as …
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Court Rejects Neighboring Property Owners’ Due Process Claim to Prevent ‘Wolf Point’ Construction in River North Area (Chicago)
I thought I was gonna have to dust off my 18,000-pound crimson-covered Laurence Tribe Constitutional Law book from 1993 Fall semester for this one. Seriously though, when I see a case that discusses substantive and procedural due process issues refers to Federal and State Constitutional amendments, my PTSD flashbacks to 1L are triggered. In Residences at Riverbend Condominium …