Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
The Northern District of Illinois recently denied a foreign truck parts supplier’s claim for lost profits in a contract dispute involving an Illinois-based global truck manufacturer. In doing so, the court expansively applied the “new business rule” to the plaintiff despite its forty-year history in the automotive parts industry. In Clutch v. Navistar, 2015 WL …
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When a former media company executive refused to turn over a private LinkedIn group’s contact information, the company responded with a multi-count lawsuit. In CDM Media USA, Inc. v. Simms, 2015 WL 1399050 (N.D. Ill Mar. 25, 2015), the plaintiff company alleged that the LinkedIn group (the “Group”), which was geared towards high-level IT professionals …
Eckert v. Levin, et al., 2015 WL 859530 (N.D.Ill. 2015), a case I featured earlier this week, gives some useful guidance on when collateral estoppel or “issue preclusion” bars a second lawsuit between two parties after a judgment entered against one of them in an earlier case. The case’s tortured history included the plaintiff getting …