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January 18, 2019
Volleyball Players Win Cert. In Sex Abuse Cover-Up Suit
An Illinois federal judge on Friday certified a class of potentially thousands of youth volleyball players on claims that banned USA Volleyball coach Rick Butler concealed the fact that he had sexually abused underage athletes from customers of his clinics and camps.
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January 18, 2019
Trucking Broker, Texas Cucumber Co. Escape Legal Pickle
An Illinois appellate panel has cut loose a Texas cucumber producer and a trucking brokerage firm in a suit seeking to hold them partially responsible for a woman’s severe injuries from a collision with a big rig contracted to haul cucumbers, saying the companies’ legal exposure ended when the produce was delivered.
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January 18, 2019
No Sanctions For Baseball League's Ex-Attys, Judge Says
An independent baseball league team owner who settled a suit with execs who allegedly cut him out of a new team deal can’t punish the league's former lawyers with $325,000 in sanctions for “vexatious” conduct, an Indiana federal court said Friday.
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January 18, 2019
Wis. Tribe Appeals To 7th Circ. Over Mich. Mine Ruling
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin has filed a Seventh Circuit appeal of a lower court ruling that dismissed its suit over a Michigan state permit for a proposed zinc and gold mine, saying the federal government has abandoned its obligation to exercise jurisdiction over the Clean Water Act.
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January 18, 2019
Ill. Subcontractors Get Some Relief From State's High Court
Construction subcontractors are the clear winners in the wake of an Illinois Supreme Court decision that overturned a 35-year-old case and said homeowners can’t directly sue subcontractors over problems with their new homes.
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