Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
(photo credit: google images; www.state-engineering.com (visited 11.5.14)) In October 2014, the Second District expanded on the Illinois mechanics’ lien act’s (the “Act”) substantive and timing requirements and also examined Illinois agency law and discussed what services are and aren’t lienable in Young v. CES, 2014 IL App (2d) 131090-U. Plaintiff owned two parcels of farm land that …
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(photocredit: gettysburgdaily.com (visited 11.2.14) Geise v. Neal, 2014 IL App (1st) 133914-U, discusses how to measure damage caused by unauthorized tree cutting on private property. The plaintiff rented out his deceased mother’s home to the defendants under a two-year lease. After they took possession, the defendants cut down over 50 trees on the lot. When …
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(Photo credit: Google images (visited 10.29.14); Associated Press) The First District recently weighed in on the nature and scope of defamation law and the false light and intrusion on seclusion civil claims in a case involving a well-known Chicago newscaster. In Jacobson v. CBS Broadcasting, Inc., 2014 IL App (1st) 132480, the plaintiff – a former NBC …