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UIC law prof sues administrators over efforts to railroad him over allegedly racially insensitive test question
UIC School of Law Professor Jason Kilborn says UIC administrators violated his constitutional and legal rights in the way they handled student complaints about an exam question that included an example redacted anti-Black slur -
Judge says Chicago residents can't sue private firm over 75-year Chicago parking meter lease
A federal judge said the plaintiffs legal injuries are apparent, but the city contract has immunity from antitrust lawsuits -
Federal judge: 'Breakthrough cases' of COVID don't legally undermine Chicago vax passport orders
A federal judge said the seeming inability of COVID vaccines to prevent people from becoming infected with COVID doesn't mean the city of Chicago's COVID vaccine passport orders are 'irrational or arbitrary' -
Judge said parents of Plainfield Central football players can't sue over alleged locker room assault
Kocoras rules the coaches' alleged failure to stop the assaults doesn't mean Plainfield School District 202 should be made to pay -
Pret a Manger agrees to pay $677K to settle IL biometrics class action over worker punch clock fingerprint scans
Almost 800 employees to get $518 each under terms of proposed deal; Lawyers would get $240,000. The restaurant chain closed all of its Chicago locations after the onset of the COVID pandemic -
Report: NorthShore could face hundreds of lawsuits from workers fired for refusing COVID vax
Lawyers for plaintiffs suing NorthShore University Healthsystem over its employee COVID vaccine mandate assert 'several hundred' workers have been improperly fired after NorthShore allegedly improperly refused their requests for religious exemption from the company's COVID vaccine mandate for hospital workers -
Judge rules for football helmet maker Riddell in 'bellwether' cases over high school players' brain injuries
Riddell successfully challenged expert testimony on warning labels and injury causation -
Judge: Punch clock fingerprint scans that violate IL biometrics law place employees at risk, justify insurance denial to employers
A federal judge ruled American Family has no obligation to cover a Kankakee McDonald's franchisee against a class action lawsuit brought under Illinois' strict biometrics privacy law -
Judge nixes rail unions' request to halt Metra's COVID vax mandate; Workers aren't left with no choice, judge says
Metra contends mandate, incentives are 'minor disputes' under federal railroad law, meaning they need to be arbitrated, not negotiated. -
Amazon can't stop biometrics class action over worker facial scans as part of COVID symptom screens at warehouses
Former worker alleged company required employees submit to scans for wellness screening -
Lawsuit: Chicago vax passport mandate violated constitutional rights, illegally interferes with contracts
A federal judge has refused to grant an emergency order sought to block Chicago from enforcing its vaccine passport mandates, which require all people over the age of 5 to prove they've been vaccinated against COVID before being allowed into restaurants, theaters, sports arenas and an array of other indoor facilities. -
City can't end federal lawsuit from man who claims mistaken ID led cops to stop him 60 times since 2006
Chicago man says continuous police questioning and detention because he had the same name as a different wanted man violated his Fourth Amendment rights -
American Airlines workers lawsuit says vax mandate without testing doesn't stop COVID spread
A group of American Airlines workers say the company broke its CBA by requiring workers to get vaccinated, without also requiring regular COVID testing. -
Judges say Dems' partisan power grab in drawing new maps didn't also violate Voting Rights Act
Democrat mapmakers were "motivated by partisan political considerations," a panel of federal judges said, so it doesn't matter that they divided Latino and Black populations up among various districts, rather than maximizing majority minority districts -
Judge again says city workers can't get an order to block city of Chicago, Illinois state vax employment mandates
A federal judge said the scientific evidence presented by the plaintiffs in support of natural immunity from COVID only demonstrates there is a scientific debate over vaccines and immunity, not that the government policies are irrational infringements on workers' rights -
Crain's Chicago Business names Judge Ann Claire Williams (Ret.) to its 2021 list of "Notable Black Leaders and Executives"
Crain's Chicago Business names Judge Ann Claire Williams (Ret.) to its 2021 list of "Notable Black Leaders and Executives". -
Federal judge tosses suit from Oak Lawn school board member, congressional candidate vs Pritzker school mask mandate
Judge says the mask mandate doesn't offend constitutional rights of children or parents -
Class action: Woodman's accused of shaving time off workers' paychecks
A new federal lawsuit has accused supermarket chain Woodman's of improperly rounding workers' hours, rather than paying them based on punchclock records. -
Federal judge: GOP judge candidate can't sue IL Elections Board over alleged stolen 2020 judicial election
Request for dismissal from Yarbrough, Judge Fallon stayed until state lawsuit is resolved -
Federal appeals court agrees: No insurance coverage for income lost by many businesses shut down by Pritzker COVID orders
Cincinnati Insurance argued the COVID virus didn't physically alter the covered buildings, so there should be no coverage, even though the businesses were forced by Gov. JB Pritzker to reduce operations amid the onset of the pandemic