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The late Daniel Hoerchler’s credit history wound up in financial reports on his brother David Hoerchler. Chase Bank rejected David’s application for a mortgage loan because of this mix-up. David sued four credit reporting agencies (Equifax Information Services, Experian Information Solutions, TransUnion and CoreLogic Credco), alleging they violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. All but Equifax settled, and during discovery it asked Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain to order David to hand over copies of the settlement agreements.

Michael Johnson, the son of TNT Sportscaster Ernie Johnson, died at 33 years old. Michael was adopted from Romania in 1991 and had muscular dystrophy. Did I know Michael? No. Do I know Ernie? No.

At the start of Professor Kristin Henning’s new book, “The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth” (Pantheon 2021), she shares the story of a former client she calls Eric, which is not his real name.

Last Wednesday the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on hundreds of petitions for leave to appeal and granted 14, only a handful of which will be of interest to civil litigators, but as always the broader implications of the cases taken and those not taken are important.

A sexual assault scandal has rocked the Chicago Blackhawks, one of the NHL’s Original Six. Kyle Beach, a former Blackhawks player, alleges that he was sexually assaulted by a team video coach during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoff run.

When a residential property is free of liens, there is no longer a lender to assure that an escrow is in place to pay real estate taxes and insurance. If you are dealing with clients who may have paid off their mortgages and home equity lines of credit, you may want to check to make sure that your clients are paying their real estate taxes and maintaining insurance.

“Love, Actually” is a 2003 romantic comedy about the ups and downs of eight different but interrelated couples in London.

Chicago has played host to many pre-Broadway theater openings and become the launching pad for a number of Broadway’s biggest hits.

Today “the big lie” often refers to the former president’s refusal to accept the results of the last presidential election. Remember he also charged that the failure of his reality TV show to win an Emmy was only because balloting was supposedly rigged.

Ever since that day more than 400 years ago when they first arrived in America aboard slave ships from Africa, Black Americans have been the most maligned and oppressed of any group in this country.

University of Miami Hurricanes quarterback D’Eriq King is showing what’s possible now that the National Collegiate Athletic Association has lifted its ban on college athletes making money off their own names and images.

“The times they are a-changin’,” are the iconic, predictive words taken from singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan’s famous song written in 1964 in response to the civil rights movement and protests of our involvement in the Vietnam War.