July 12, 2024
State and federal courts have handed down rulings so far this year that limited the reach of a federal bribery law commonly used to prosecute Illinois corruption, laid out a framework to challenge so-called mootness fees and clarified the scope of Illinois defamation and antitrust law. Here's a look at some of the biggest Illinois decisions in the first half of 2024.
April 15, 2024
A Seventh Circuit panel said Monday that a Chicago federal judge improperly barred a class action objector from intervening in a suit involving controversial "mootness fees" the appellate court has long criticized, saying he failed to articulate a valid legal reason for doing so.
April 14, 2020
Plaintiffs' attorneys told the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday a district judge attempted "to rewrite the federal rules on the fly" when he forced them to disgorge fees they won after securing disclosures that mooted their investor clients' claims in three suits over Akorn Inc.'s planned merger with Fresenius Kabi.
October 22, 2019
In what appears to be a first, plaintiffs attorneys are asking a federal appellate court to allow a controversial practice in which they file merger objections that result in a few extra disclosures for investors and privately negotiated "mootness fees" for the lawyers, which they say are out of the lower courts' reach.