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Windy City Metal Fabricators & Supply, Inc. v. CIT Tech. Fin. Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a class-action suit alleging fraud and deceptive business practices, grant of a motion to dismiss is affirmed in part and reversed in part where:...

Jaramillo v. Weyerhaeuser Co.

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an appeal from summary judgment dismissing a strict liability action brought by injured worker plaintiff against defendant former owner of injuring...

Californians For Disability Rights v. Mervyn's LLC

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law
In a case brought by plaintiff-organization representing disabled individuals against defendant-retailer Mervyn's for maintaining narrow pathways...

Rickher v. Home Depot, Inc.

Class Actions, Construction, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts
In a class-action suit alleging that defendant's sale of damage waivers for tool rentals violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business...

Bodine v. Graco, Inc.

Consumer Protection Law, Transportation
The private right of action under the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act is limited to allegations of fraud relating to a vehicle's...

Natural Answers, Inc. v. Smithkline Beecham Corp.

Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Evidence, False Advertising, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Trade Secrets, Trademark
In a trademark infringement case involving claims against defendants for the advertisement of certain health products, summary judgment for defendants...

Jasty v. Wright Med. Tech., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Evidence, Remedies
In an action involving breach of contract and consumer protection claims, judgment for plaintiff on the breach of contract claims, the damages award,...

TJX Companies, Inc. v. Superior Court (Caldwell)

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Remedies
In a review of lower court rulings of a pending class action based on alleged violations of a statute prohibiting businesses from requiring credit...

Saunders v. Branch Banking and Trust Co. of Virginia

Banking Law, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection, Remedies
In an action alleging violation of defendant-lender's duties as a furnisher of information under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), judgment...

Pludeman v. N. Leasing Sys., Inc.

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
The court of appeals rules that plaintiffs sufficiently pleaded a cause of action for fraud against individually-named corporate defendants pursuant...