Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
Corporate successor liability’s focal point is whether a purchasing corporation (Company 2) is responsible for the purchased corporation’s (Company 1) pre-sale contract obligations. It’s an important question because the Company 1 will usually have no assets after the purchase. Creditors of Company 1 will then try to pin liability on Company 2. The general rule in Illinois …
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Blood From A Turnip (www.flickr.com)(visited 3.9.16) 735 ILCS 5/2-1402 and Supreme Court Rule 277 govern post-judgment or supplementary proceedings in Illinois. 735 ILCS 5/12-101 through 12-183 provide additional post-judgment specifics like the mechanics of levying on a debtor’s property, the seven-year period to enforce a judgment (12-108), the lien on debtor’s real estate and personal …
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Can surfing the Net on company time get you fired? Perhaps. Can it subject you to Federal criminal and civil penalties? Not yet. At least not in the Tampa, Florida area. Wendy Lee v. PMSI, 2011 WL 1742028 (M.D.Fla. 2011) illustrates a creative attempt to expand the reach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act …
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