After recent airline mergers of Delta and Northwest (2008), Continental and United (2010), and Southwest and AirTran (2011), the Feds say not so fast to American Airlines and US Air.
Archives for August 2013
Google Tells Gmail Users to Expect No Privacy
Gmail users should not expect any privacy when they use Gmail to send messages. Google compares the Gmail situation to the lack of privacy when you send a letter to a colleague and the colleagues’ assistant reads the letter. Here, Google is that assistant reading your emails before they reach the actual recipient.
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Based On Sexual Orientation Discrimination Preempted By The Illinois Human Rights Act
In Schroeder v RGIS, Inc., 2013 IL App (1st) 122483 (June 11, 2013), the plaintiff filed a claim alleging intentional infliction of emotional distress against his former employer. The basis of his intentional infliction claim was allegations of discrimination and retaliation based on the plaintiff’s sexual orientation. The Court dismissed the plaintiff’s complaint and ruled it was a tort claim inextricably linked to a sexual orientation discrimination claim under the Illinois Human Rights Act.
If You Are An Employee Don’t Admit Termination If You Want To Plead Failure To Recall
In Shelton v. OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, 2013 IL App (3d) 120628 (June 19, 2013), the plaintiff alleged in a verified amended complaint that she was terminated from her employment. The Court found this was a judicial admission. The plaintiff’s cause of action was based, however, on the single theory of retaliatory failure to recall her to employment. The Court concluded that the plaintiff’s admission in her complaint and numerous statements including her letter to the employer and an agreed statement for trial showed that the judicial admission of termination was binding and was not the result of inadvertence or mistake. Therefore, the admission was fatal to her cause of action for failure to recall.
McKenna Lawyers Recommended by Best’s Directory of Insurance Attorneys
The Firm is pleased to announce that McKenna Storer has been recommended by Best’s Directory for Insurance Lawyers in 2013. The list of Leading Lawyers is the result of thousands of contacts with Illinois lawyers asking them which of their peers they believe comprise the top lawyers. Only those lawyers who are most often recommended qualify as Leading Lawyers.