The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Fourth District Appellate Justice Lisa Holder White to fill the seat of Justice Rita Garman, who announced on Monday that she would retire.
A federal appeals court in Chicago gave prominent religious liberty lawyer Luke Goodrich permission to argue in court, despite not having received a Covid shot. The plaintiffs representing a woman suing a Catholic Archdiocese for discrimination had objected
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman, who is the longest-serving judge in Illinois, announced Monday that she will retire after nearly 50 years on the bench.
State appellate judges have taken the boot off a class action alleging the city skirted a state law capping municipal ordinance fines at $250 each, costing hundreds of thousands of people hundreds of millions of dollars
The federal lawsuit says the plaintiff was "shut out" of the clerk's payroll system when she raised concerns, and then was blocked from reinstatement by politically influential employees within the office of Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the Democrats who control Illinois' state government and state institutions are all but asking for court challenges to two policies, requiring University of Illinois academics to prove they are working for "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion," and requiring gas stations and grocery stores to tell Illinoisans that the state temporarily suspended certain tax hikes
Cozen O’Connor attorney Jim Argionis, a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice in Chicago, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Sgt. Karen Lader Memorial Good Citizen Award.
Dissenting Fourth District Appellate Court justice says his colleagues ignored Illinois Supreme Court precedent and other legal precedents in declaring the state's Right of Conscience law only forbids discrimination against conscientous objectors in an "unconventional sense"
The lawsuit argues neither state law or any union-related negotiation or arbitration should allow Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections to ignore due process rights afforded to IDOC workers under the state's public health laws
While billed as a "workers rights amendment," Amendment 1 - which will be on the ballot this fall in Illinois - would give unions the power to use collective bargaining to override a wide range of state laws that apply to everyone else, says the Illinois Policy Institute
A judge has dismissed one of two plaintiffs from a suit accusing Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough of laying off employees because of their political affiliations, saying the dismissed plaintiff didn't put forth enough evidence to "get out of the gate."
A federal judge conceded former House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and Chicago Ald. Marty Quinn may have taken improper actions to keep a young man from putting his name on the ballot to challenge Quinn. But it didn't violate the man's constitutional rights, the judge said.
The time has come for the general public to easily access information about court cases online, so judges can be adequately evaluated by voters and held accountable for their actions, says Matt Rosenberg, of Wirepoints.
A judge has ruled Illinois must turn over the state's list of registered voters to a politically conservative watchdog group, saying the list needs to be public to make sure the electoral process is on the up and up.
Lawyers say sum is by far the largest ever reached under California Invasion of Privacy Act. Myron M. Cherry & Associates to get $16M from the deal
A Cook County judge last month rejected the attempt by the Cook County Department of Public Health to force a seventh grader to be excluded from school for 10 days, even though the student had tested negative, saying the health officials needed to do more than merely insinuate the student might be contagious