A special thanks to Adam Brandolph (Twitter: @brandolph_trib) of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for alerting me to this one. In In re Estate of Schaab, a Pennsylvania court awarded over $500K in legal fees to a law firm that negotiated the settlement of a planned wrongful death suit on behalf of the parents of a murder …
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Trump Tower Condo Buyer’s Bait-and-Switch Claim Defeated – Seventh Circuit
The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed the District Court’s trial verdict in favor of some Trump-controlled entities in a consumer fraud suit filed by a purchaser of some Trump Tower condominium units. In Goldberg v. 401 North Wabash Investor, LLC, 2014 WL 2579939 (7th Cir. 2014), an eighty-something real estate investor sued on a bait-and-switch theory after a condominium …
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Illinois Fraud and Civil Conspiracy Basics – Illinois Law
In Al Maha Trading v. Darley, 2014 WL 2459674 (N.D. Ill. 2014), the plaintiff brought fraud and civil conspiracy claims in connection with a fire truck sales contract. The plaintiff, a Saudi Arabia-based fire and rescue services company, ordered six fire trucks and related equipment from the Illinois-based defendant. The plaintiff claimed the defendant submitted inflated invoices for …
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