In Laba v. CTA, 2016 WL 147656 (N.D.Ill. 2016), the Court considers the contours of the conversion tort in a dispute involving former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees who lied about their hours worked. The CTA claimed the employees converted or “stole” paycheck monies by falsifying employee time records in order to get paid by the agency. The Court dismissed the CTA’s …