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 Court also affirmed summary judgment on the plaintiff’s fraud claims against its former corporate President defendant in Star Forge, Inc. v. F.C. Mason Co., 2014 IL App (2d) 130527-U. Plaintiff’s two-fold fraud claims were premised on (1) defendant misrepresenting to plaintiff the requirements of a big money contract involving John Deere so that a competitor of plaintiff’s …
In Davidson v. Schneider, 2014 WL 656780 (N.D.Ill. 2014), the Court describes the quantum of proof required for a plaintiff to survive summary judgment on both the damages element of a breach of contract claim and the “reasonable expectancy” prong of a tortious interference claim. The plaintiff and defendant were competitors in the baseball vision testing business. …
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