Subject Index Consumer Fraud

The Illinois General Assembly enacted the Prohibition of Unfair Service Agreements Act. Under the Act, a service agreement is determined to be unfair if performance of some part of the service agreement will not occur within a single year following the creation of the agreement and any of the following three conditions are true...

The Illinois General Assembly amended the Child Labor Law. “Vloggers” are people who create internet video content performed in Illinois in exchange for compensation.

The Illinois General Assembly amended the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. It is an unlawful practice to knowingly send or cause to be sent a postcard or letter (“document”) if all of the following four criteria are met

On Nov. 6, 2020, the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court reversed a judgment for attorney fees for which there existed no reliable timekeeping records and remanded a judgment for attorney fees grossly disproportionate to compensatory damages for further inquiry into their reasonableness.

On Nov. 19, 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court held that a private person may bring an action on behalf of the state and be entitled to a share of the monetary damages if the private person is an interested person by virtue of her personal knowledge of nonpublic evidence of wrongdoing.

The Illinois General Assembly amended several definitions in section 2VVV of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, which refers to deceptive marketing, advertising, and sale of mental-health-disorder and substance-use-disorder treatment.