A Chicago appeals panel has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit against the Anthropologie retail chain, saying a customer with a bowel disease can sue the company under a state restroom access law for not letting her use an employee bathroom, which caused her to soil herself in public.

The Nov. 18 ruling was authored by Justice Robert Gordon, of the Illinois First District Appellate Court, with concurrence from justices Jesse Reyes and Shelvin Hall. The ruling favored Alana Pilotto in her suit against Anthropologie, a clothing store chain owned by Urban Outfitters, which is headquartered in Philadelphia.

Pilotto filed action in 2015 in Cook County Circuit Court, alleging Anthropologie breached the 2005 Illinois Restroom Access Act. The Act requires retailers to allow a customer, with an afflictionby the early 2000s physicians' regulatory bodies worldwide began to take action toward restricting the work hours of medical residents and ensuring adequate time for recovery between shifts.[@R3] Since their implementation in the USA by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the impact of work hour regulations has been widely researched. Still, evidence for impacts on patient care, resident training and well-being remains equivocal.[@R6] This is likely because work hours are only one of many contributors to fatigue and physician well-being. In fact, the ACGME has recently reversed the 2011 changes that limited resident work hours to 16 hours per shift and the requirement for 8 hours of time off between shifts. This decision was made in favour of promoting 'flexibility' for residency training programme work hours and