Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
Here’s a case that’s a little dated (2012) but still post-worthy for its detailed discussion of punitive damages and the standards for expert testimony admissibility in Federal court. In Baldonado v. Wyeth, 2012 WL 1520331, the Northern District partially granted a motion to bar plaintiff’s economics expert from testifying on plaintiff’s punitive damages and a defendant pharmaceutical …
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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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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 …