Law Alerts
Federal (Seventh Circuit)
Chain-of-command policy is not an unconstitutional prior restraint.
In a case successfully presented to the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit by Bullaro & Carton, P.C. on behalf of the LaPorte Community School Corporation and its superintendent and members of the Board of Trustees, it was held that the school’s “chain-of-command” policy was not an unconstitutional prior restraint.
Indiana
Employer not liable for police officer/security guard's arrest of customer.
In a case successfully presented to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana by Bullaro & Carton, P.C. on behalf of Citizens Financial Bank, the court granted summary judgment in favor of Citizens, holding that it could not be liable for the actions of an off-duty police officer employed as a security guard in arresting a bank customer.
Illinois
Relatives/occupants of home owned by named insured are not members of insured's "household" under homeowner's insurance policy.
In State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Martinez, 2008 WL 3189608 (Ill.App. 1 Dist.), the Illinois Appellate Court held that the occupants of a home, and owners of a dog which bit a child, were not entitled to coverage under the homeowners insurance policy issued to the named insureds and owners of the home, because they were not members of the named insured’s household.