The “suspicious timing” of an employee’s termination 48 days after she filed a workers’ compensation claim is not “in and of itself” sufficient to preclude a summary judgment for the employer, an appellate court in Illinois has held. It has affirmed a trial court’s dismissal of a claim for retaliatory discharge brought by the former employee.
A criminal defendant convicted of aggravated identity theft has lost an attack on a two-level enhancement of his sentence because he pretended to act on behalf of a fake charity.
Jonathan Webster pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of individual identities with false offers of lending a helping hand. He had created websites for fake charities and invited recently unemployed people to apply for financial aid. The Court imposed a 132-month sentence.
A religious association that falsely purported to be a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery has been ordered to pay more than $71,000 in punitive damages to a couple who made substantial payments to the association on the basis of the misrepresentation. An appellate court in Connecticut has affirmed a trial court decision that also ordered the association to pay more than $207,000 in compensatory damages. (Wagner v.
When Sister George Marie Attea, a long-time professed nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Buffalo, NY, died in 2014, she left a will and a probate estate of nearly $2 million, to be divided among her brothers, the husband of her deceased sister, the Congregation, and a number of Catholic charities.
The Rutherford Wrestling Club in Murfreesboro Tennessee has no legal interest in a building or equipment it helped fund on public school property. A state trial court and appellate court have denied the Club access when it refused to sign a third party user agreement with the County.
An attorney who served on the board of directors and then as Executive Director of a residential school for children with autism is not disqualified from representing a family claiming mistreatment of their child more than 5 years after the lawyer left the school. A federal District Court in California has ruled that there is no “substantial relationship” between his role with the school and the issues of the current litigation. (
