Upon learning that its former CEO stole nearly a million dollars from it, the plaintiff marketing firm in Adgooroo, LLC v. Hechtman, 2016 IL App (1st) 142531-U, sued its accounting firm for failing to discover the multi-year embezzlement scheme. The accounting firm in turn brought a third-party action against the plaintiff’s bank for not properly …
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Ill. Wage Payment and Collection Act Doesn’t Apply to NY and Cal. Corps. With Only Random Ill. Contacts
As worker mobility increases and employees working in one state and living in another almost an afterthought, questions of court jurisdiction over intrastate workplace relationships come to the fore. Another issue triggered by a geographically nimble workforce is whether a non-resident can invoke the protections of another state’s laws. Illinois provides a powerful remedial scheme for employees who are stiffed by …
No Punitive Damages Allowed In Statutory Replevin Action – IL 2d District
In Sensational Four, Inc. v. Tri-Par Die and Mold Corporation, 2016 IL App (2d) 150468, the food company plaintiff filed a replevin action against a manufacturer to recover plaintiff’s injection molding equipment used to make jars and lids. When the defendant failed to return plaintiff’s equipment despite a court replevin order to do so, plaintiff filed …
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