18th Street Property, LLC v. A-1 Citywide Towing & Recovery, Inc., 2015 IL App (1st) 142444-U examines the res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines in the context of a commercial lease dispute where the lease has an acceleration clause and there have been prior eviction cases involving the same property and lease parties. The plaintiff lessor obtained a possession order and judgment in late 2012 on a towing shop lease that expired March 31, 2013. About six months after

In a case that invokes Hadley v. Baxendale** — the storied British Court of Exchequer case published just three years after Moby Dick (just call me "Wikipedia guy") and a stalwart of all first year Contracts courses across the land — the Seventh Circuit reversed a multi-million dollar judgment for a furniture maker. The plaintiff in JMB Manufacturing, Inc. v. Child Craft, LLC, sued the defendant furniture manufacturer for failing to pay for about $90,000 worth of wood product