The Plaintiff in UIRC-GSA Holdings, Inc. v. William Blair & Company, 2017 WL 3706625 (N.D.Ill. 2017), sued its investment banker for copyright infringement and professional negligence claiming the banker used the plaintiff’s protected intellectual property – private placement memoranda – to get business from other clients. The parties previously executed an engagement agreement (“Agreement”) which …
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Illinois Partnership Law, Exclusive Remedy Provisions and Federal Judgment on the Pleadings Standards (IL ND)
Allied Waste Transportation v. Bellemead Development Corp., 2014 WL 4414510 (ND.Ill. 2014), examines the reach of liability under a decades-old partnership agreement for millions of dollars in environmental clean-up costs. The plaintiff and defendant were partners in an entity that ran a landfill in suburban Chicago. The partnership agreement gave each party 50-50 responsibility for paying …
Landlord’s Termination of Lease Precludes Future Damages
“A landlord left without an adequate remedy following breach of the lease by a tenant has only itself to blame for entering into a lease that fails to provide such a remedy.” 275 West Washington Street Corp. v. Hudson River Intern., LLC, 987 N.E.2d 194 (2013). The case: 275 Washington Street Corp. v. Hudson …
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