Megan Crepeau

5 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Mallory Culhane |Megan Crepeau

Inadequate record ‘dooms’ challenge to Cook County ban, court findsPlaintiffs wanted 7th Circuit to consider prohibition post-BruenCook County, Ill.'s prohibition on semiautomatic weapons was upheld Monday, with a federal appeals court finding that the Second Amendment advocates who challenged the law didn’t present enough of a record to persuade them to reconsider a prior decision upholding the ban.

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Mallory Culhane |Megan Crepeau

Cook County, Ill.'s prohibition on semiautomatic weapons was upheld Monday, with a federal appeals court finding that the Second Amendment advocates who challenged the law didn’t present enough of a record to persuade them to reconsider a prior decision upholding the ban. The plaintiffs’ “failure to build an adequate record here dooms his challenge,” the unsigned order states. Chief Judge Diane Sykes and Judges Michael Brennan and Amy St. Eve sat on the panel.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau

Software company Epic Systems made a return trip to the Seventh Circuit on Thursday, asking judges to award interest starting from 2017 against the group found to have taken its data. Even though the amount of punitive damages owed by Tata Consultancy Services was reduced by court order in 2022, “the factual and legal basis for Epic’s entitlement to punitive damages has remained undisturbed,” argued Kathryn Wynbrandt of Jenner & Block.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Megan Crepeau

Software company wants accrual dated from initial 2017 judgmentPunitive damages only finalized five years later, Tata arguesSoftware company Epic Systems made a return trip to the Seventh Circuit on Thursday, asking judges to award interest starting from 2017 against the group found to have taken its data.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau |Patrick Gregory

A Seventh Circuit judge seemed skeptical of a college football player’s antitrust challenge to National Collegiate Athletic Association eligibility policies at oral arguments Wednesday. The three-judge panel wrestled with antitrust allegations and eligibility rules in a college-sports landscape vastly changed by “name, image, and likeness” guidelines that allow student-athletes to make money from their public personas.