Illinois State Executive - Secretary of State
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Appellate panel: Second look needed at challenge to the way IL Gaming Board makes video gambling rules
An appellate panel has ruled the state's video gambling law is constitutional. But they said a Cook County judge needs to take another look at the way the Illinois Gaming Board makes its rules to regulate video gambling in the state. -
Judge: Cops not required to include personal 'private info' on public crash reports to lawyers seeking clients
Lawyers who use police accident reports to find clients and drum up business can’t use state open records laws to force police departments to provide addresses and insurance policy numbers for people involved in traffic crashes, a Cook County judge has ruled. -
Court: IL Secretary of State can't charge $20K for documents after taking 6 months to respond to FOIA ask
Appellate court says Secretary of State can't charge $20,000 for documents after waiting more than six months to respond to FOIA request -
IL bill forcing companies to add female, African American directors contradicts IL law, constitution: Manufacturers assn
Illinois manufacturers believe a bill that would force publicly-held corporations to have at least one female and one African-American on their boards could run afoul of the Illinois Constitution and the Civil Rights Act. -
FREEBORN & PETERS: Partner John Shapiro Speaks at National Diversity and Leadership Conference
Freeborn & Peters LLP made the following announcement on April 8: -
IL law requiring presidential candidates to release tax data would face stiff constitutional test
A state Senate bill that would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to release their tax returns in order to be included on the Illinois ballot could pose a daunting question to the courts. -
Class action vs Chicago over distracted driving tickets OK to continue; City: Not really a moving violation
A Cook County judge, for now, has allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed against the city of Chicago, brought by a group of people who claimed the city wrongly prosecuted tens of thousands of distracted driving tickets. -
With Democratic lock on IL government, 'new wave' of regulation, enforcement, litigation 'likely': Attorneys
Democrats have grabbed a stranglehold on Illinois state government. And that could mean businesses and employers of all sizes should begin to prepare for a new pro-labor, pro-plaintiffs environment of anticipated heightened government scrutiny, regulatory action and lawsuits, say attorneys who regularly work with businesses and employers facing such actions. -
Anti-hate group organization ExitUSA files suit over trademark dispute against co-founder
A Chicago organization that specializes in helping people exit hate groups has filed a lawsuit against one if its co-founders who branched off to start a similar organization, saying the new group is infringing its trademarks. -
Appeals panel tosses Thrivent's attempts to shut down Illinois Securities Dept. investigation
A state appeals panel has dealt a setback to Thrivent Investment Management's efforts to thwart a state investigation into the company's activities. -
Fair Maps Amendment not called for vote, deadline passes to place it on November 2018 ballot
Illinois voters will not get a chance to weigh in on the question of whether Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and other legislative leaders in the Democratic-controlled Illinois General Assembly should continue to hold the keys to drawing the state's legislative district maps, after the leaders of the state House and Senate refused to call a vote for a constitutional amendment designed to curtail their influence over the process. -
Illinois ethics panel fines ex-Bensenville trustee for using state job to snoop political rival's driver's records
A state ethics panel has ordered a former village trustee and one-time candidate for mayor of Bensenville to pay a fine for allegedly using his job in the Illinois Secretary of State’s office to snoop on the driving records of a political opponent. -
'Public should control process:' Anti-gerrymandering amendment filed in Springfield
As Illinois courts have repeatedly slapped aside attempts by Illinois voters to wrest control of drawing new legislative district maps from which ever partisans control the Illinois General Assembly, the coalition behind many of those past efforts to place referenda on the Illinois ballot to change the state constitution are now backing a new amendment to combat partisan gerrymandering, with the fight this time beginning in the state legislature. -
Appeals court: Ballot access rules not intended to produce 'absurdity;' Drury can remain on A/G ballot
Declaring they did not believe state lawmakers intended for candidates to be removed from the ballot over “absurdity,” a state appeals court has ruled Illinois attorney general candidate Scott Drury should remain on the Democratic primary ballot, despite an attempt to have him removed over his alleged failure to file a new economic interest statement when he switched to pursuing election as the state’s top law enforcement officer. -
Illinois law reducing LLC fees will help make Prairie State a bit more business friendly, attorney says
A woman is suing Union Medical Center, Cityscape Landscape LLC, Beef-Boners Union and Chicago Title Land Trust Company for allegedly taking insufficient measures to prevent injuries. And that's good for small businesses and the entire state, a local attorney says. -
Judge: Chicago courts wrong place to try patent dispute over medical billing software
Invoking a recent Supreme Court decision addressing some of the litigation behaviors of so-called “patent trolls,” a federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit, saying plaintiffs’ assertions some people employed by a company accused of infringing a patent work from home in Illinois isn’t enough for him to allow the case to be tried in Chicago. -
Illinois automatic voter registration bill signed into law; Cook clerk says will enable cleanup of voter rolls
When Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill on Aug. 28 to automatically register Illinois residents to vote, the man in charge of the office that oversees elections in suburban Cook County said the signature was the final piece in a long sought tool to "clean up" voter rolls in the county and elsewhere. -
IL Supreme Court: Insurer's suit vs Indiana warehouse biz over roof collapse doesn't belong in Cook County
The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned a Cook County judge and a state appeals court, saying they erred in refusing to grant an Indiana warehousing company’s request to dismiss a Michigan insurer’s lawsuit on grounds the legal action didn’t belong in Cook County. -
Appeals court: Taiwanese bike maker must face lawsuit from IL cyclist whose bike broke as she rode it
A state appellate court was not convinced by a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer’s argument that its ties to Illinois are too weak to make it a defendant in a lawsuit brought by a woman who said she was injured when her bike fell apart as she rode it in a long-distance cycling event. -
Class action: Chicago tramples rights in prosecuting distracted driving tickets
Fast on the heels of a $39 million settlement ending their class action lawsuit against City Hall over tickets issued under its red light camera program, attorneys with the firm of Myron Cherry & Associates have again delivered a class action lawsuit against the city of Chicago, now alleging the city also wrongly prosecuted tens of thousands of city citations issued under the city’s distracted driving ordinance.