Latest News and Decisions
TDR Obtains Voluntary Dismissal of BIPA Lawsuit
On January 5, 2025, TDR attorneys secured voluntary dismissal--without settlement--of a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois accusing our client of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...
Kansas Federal Court Ends Class Action Lawsuit Based on Credit Repair Organizations Act
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas granted our clients’ motion for summary judgment in a class action lawsuit in which our clients were accused of violating the Credit Repair Organizations Act (“CROA”). The Court’s ruling ended...
Client Prevails on Trade Secret Claims in Alabama Federal Court
On December 10, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama granted our client's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit in which our client was accused of misappropriating trade secrets in the field of financial technology, or "fintech." The...
TDR Secures $470,000 Contract Damages Award for Clients
On September 24, 2024, TDR secured a $470,000 contract damages award for its investor clients after the Circuit Court of Cook County granted their motion for summary judgment. The summary judgment motion was based on the defendant’s failure to timely respond to Rule...
New Associates Join TDR
Tabet DiVito & Rothstein is pleased to announce that John Andreasen and Jeffrey L. Grinde, Jr. recently joined the firm as associates. John’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy matters, and business disputes. Prior to joining TDR, John...
Latest Articles
Illinois Supreme Court Holds that Collateral Source Rule Does Not Apply in Pure Economic Loss Tort Cases
Plaintiffs asserting purely economic losses in tort cases already face a significant hurdle in Illinois: the well-established economic loss rule, otherwise known as the Moorman doctrine. But those plaintiffs now face an additional challenge, because in Lewis v. Lead...
“Used with a View to Profit”–An Interesting Statutory Phrase and a Property Tax Dispute
In University of Chicago v. Department of Revenue, 2020 IL App (1st) 191195 (opinion issued May 15, 2020), the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court faced a unique property tax dispute that required the interpretation of a curious phrase in section 15-35 of...
Illinois Appellate Court Publishes Analysis on a Statutory Fee-Shifting Provision
Recently, the Illinois Appellate Court published its 2019 decision in Lopez v. Rendered Servs., Inc., 2019 IL App (1st) 181869. Lopez serves as a great refresher on the American Rule regarding attorney fees and statutory fee-shifting provisions in Illinois.In Lopez,...
Seventh Circuit Issues Stern Warning to Violators of Telemarketing Statutes
The Seventh Circuit's recent decision in United States v. DISH Network LLC, 954 F.3d 970 (7th Cir. 2020), comes with a stern warning to companies that violate state and federal telemarketing statutes: "Someone whose maximum penalty reaches the mesosphere only...
Crim v. Dietrich: Focus on the Necessity for a Posttrial Motion in a Civil Jury Trial and the Effect of Not Filing Such a Motion
In the medical malpractice case of Crim v. Dietrich, 2020 IL 124318 (issued on April 2, 2020), plaintiffs, the mother and father of the injured newborn baby, alleged that defendant, the doctor who delivered the baby: (1) failed to obtain the mother's informed consent...
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