(“Isn’t that remarkable…..”) The Plaintiff in Brne v. Inspired eLearning, 2017 WL 4263995, worked in sales for the corporate publisher defendant. His employment contract called for arbitration in San Antonio, Texas. When defendant failed to pay plaintiff his earned commissions, plaintiff sued in Federal court in his home state of Illinois under the Illinois Wage …
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7th Circuit Takes Archaic Hearsay Exceptions to Judicial Woodshed
Decrying them as flawed “folk psychology” with dubious philosophical underpinnings, the Seventh Circuit recently took two venerable hearsay exceptions to task in the course of affirming a felon’s conviction on a Federal weapons charge. In U.S. v. Boyce (here), the Court affirmed the trial court’s admission of a 911 call recording and transcript into evidence …
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Bank Escapes Liability Where It Accepts Two-Party Check With Only One Indorsement – IL ND
BBCN Bank v. Sterling Fire Restoration, Ltd., 2016 WL 691784 homes in on the required showing to win a motion for judgment on the pleadings in Federal court, the scope of a general release, and the UCC section governing joint payee or “two-party” checks. The plaintiff, an assignee of a fire restorer’s claim who did …