On Mar. 31, 2022, the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court reversed and remanded a trial court’s dismissal of a class action on grounds that an exception to the exhaustion doctrine applied.
The Illinois Supreme Court recently considered the issue of whether a defendant’s effective tender of requested damages and attorney fees in a class-action suit is sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff’s individual claim and make the cause of action moot.
In Illinois, defendants can moot a class action case by making an individual settlement offer to a named plaintiff. Fortunately for class members, plaintiffs have ways to preempt this move. Here's the state of the law.
Plaintiffs argue that Zillow is violating the Illinois Real Estate Appraiser Licensing Act with its Zestimate. Zillow responds that such automated valuation models are exempt under the law.
On August 12, 2014, the Second District Appellate Court held that a time-limited offer to tender settlement failed to moot a putative class representative's individual claims.
The Barber court made clear that defendants can stop a class action by tendering full relief to the named plaintiffs - the so-called "pick off" maneuver. Here's a review and practice advice.
On November 30, 2006, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the decisions of the Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District, and the Circuit Court of Perry County, both of which improperly certified a class of plaintiffs.
The Illinois Supreme Court barred plaintiffs' class action claim and overturned a $10-plus billion award against Philip Morris. But experts doubt the case will have much precedential power outside Illinois.
The supreme court decertified a Madison-County-based nationwide class action case against State Farm for installing after-market replacement parts in damaged vehicles.
Amended Supreme Court Rule 306 allows discretionary appeals of interlocutory orders granting or denying class certification. Here's the defense lawyer's take on the change.
Amended Supreme Court Rule 306 allows discretionary appeals of interlocutory orders granting or denying class certification. Here's the plaintiff's lawyer's take on the change.
