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• September 21, 2017

  7th Circ. Revives Ex-Legal Assistant's Age Bias Suit

  A Seventh Circuit panel on Thursday vacated a lower court's dismissal of a former legal assistant's age discrimination suit against the law firm she worked for, though refused to revive her defamation claim.

• September 21, 2017

  Allscripts Seeks Pause For 7th Circ. Ruling On TCPA Consent

  Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge Wednesday to stay a proposed class action against the company over advertising faxes that lacked opt-out clauses, arguing the court should first see whether the Seventh Circuit decertifies a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class in a related suit.

• September 21, 2017

  Ill. Court OKs Toss Of Man's Suit Over Wife's Heart Attack

  An Illinois appellate panel affirmed the dismissal of a man's malpractice suit against a hospital and doctor after his wife's death from a heart attack, finding Wednesday that the physician's care was appropriate and some of the claims in the case were too late.

• September 21, 2017

  Real Estate Rumors: James Dyson, Silverman, Spaces

  James Dyson of the Dyson appliance firm is reportedly paying between $73 million and $83 million for a Park Avenue penthouse in Manhattan, Silverman Group is said to have picked up two Florida industrial buildings for $30.7 million, and co-working firm Spaces is reportedly leasing 40,000 square feet in Chicago.

• September 21, 2017

  SEC Seeks No Penalty From IT Firm Over Execs' Alleged Fraud

  A bankrupt information technology company whose former top executives face criminal fraud charges for allegedly plundering their company’s accounts and trying to hide it won’t have to pay a cent under a settlement filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Illinois federal court on Wednesday.

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