May 15, 2023
The superintendent of a Cook County juvenile detention center that was used to film parts of the Twentieth Century Fox show "Empire" is immune from detainees' claims that his decision to allow the filming violated fiduciary duties, the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday.
October 27, 2021
The Seventh Circuit can consider whether a juvenile detention center superintendent is entitled to sovereign immunity and protection from a class of detainees who say they experienced disruption when Twentieth Century Fox filmed parts of the show "Empire" at the center, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.
June 25, 2021
An Illinois juvenile detention center superintendent asked a federal court to allow the Seventh Circuit to consider whether he had a fiduciary duty to a class of detainees who say they experienced disruption when Twentieth Century Fox filmed parts of the show "Empire" at the center.
June 10, 2021
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday let four classes pursue narrowed claims over "modest disruptions" detainees say they experienced when Twentieth Century Fox filmed parts of the show "Empire" in a Cook County juvenile detention center.
December 18, 2020
Cook County asked an Illinois federal judge Thursday for a quick win over claims that Twentieth Century Fox unfairly profited from using a juvenile detention center to film parts of the show "Empire," arguing the detainees were only minorly inconvenienced through that process.
January 21, 2020
The chief judge for Cook County, Illinois, has asked to be let out of a suit alleging the county and Twentieth Century Fox unfairly profited from using a juvenile detention center to film parts of the show "Empire," arguing federal law immunizes him from the suit.
October 16, 2017
Twentieth Century Fox and Cook County couldn't escape claims Monday that they unfairly profited from the use of the county's juvenile detention center to film parts of the Fox TV show "Empire," putting the facility on lockdown so the center's detainees could not participate in the activities meant to rehabilitate them.
August 24, 2016
A pair of teens held in a Chicago juvenile detention center used to film episodes of the Fox show "Empire" filed a class action suit in Illinois federal court against the broadcaster and the county Wednesday, claiming they were kept from school and activities while the cameras rolled.