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Settlement: Reformers to pay state $525K for opposing Pritzker's effort to end fed oversight of state hiring
The deal between reform advocates Michael Shakman and Paul Lurie and the state of Illinois was announced by a federal judge -
Pritzker seeks $1.5M in fees from reformers who opposed his efforts to end federal oversight of state hiring
Reform advocates Michael Shakman and Paul Lurie say Gov. JB Pritzker's demand amounts to an attempt to punish them for not immediately capitulating to Pritzker's position on the need for continued federal oversight of hiring and promotion within state agencies under the governor's control -
Feds say Cook Co. Circuit Clerk's Office hiring still needs monitoring, but lilkely will end under appeals court ruling
A federal watchdog is saying the Cook County Circuit Clerk's Office still needs oversight of its hiring and promotion practices to root out undue political influence, but recognizes that an appellate ruling, instigated by Gov. JB Pritzker, will likely end supervision. -
Feds anti-corruption oversight of IL state hiring practices ends after 50 years, in win for Pritzker
A federal judge, under orders from an appeals court, has formally ended the so-called Shakman Decrees, intended to prevent officials, like the governor, from using patronage hiring to boost political power -
Appeals court says ex-partners of Chicago's McNabola Law Group didn't lure clients and staff to new firm
An appeals panel has ruled attorneys Cogan and Power, the former partners of McNabola Law Group in Chicago, didn't improperly steal away McNabola clients and employees when they started their own firm -
Judge won't dismiss class action lawsuit accusing elite colleges, universities of financial aid collusion
Plaintiffs claims tuition would've been cheaper but for an agreement among some of America's top colleges and universities, including University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Brown, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Duke, among others. -
Appeals court says Pritzker administration can escape fed court oversight of state hiring decisions
The appeals panel said it is 'not naive' about Illinois' history of corruption, and that courts remain open to future lawsuits, if patronage hiring resumes. But they said federal court oversight of state hiring decisions cannot continue indefinitely. -
Appeals panel split on Illinois' obligation to force timely Medicaid payments to hospitals
A lawsuit from cash-strapped safety net hospital, St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago, alleges systemic failure to pay on time, leading to dire financial straits -
Yarbrough: Time for feds oversight of Cook Clerk's office to end; Court monitors focusing on details to keep getting paid
Yarbrough says compliance administrators appointed by the court to ensure she obeys federal court decrees are trying to find reasons to keep those decrees in place to ensure they continue to get paid -
Reformers' filing: Cook Clerk Yarbrough 'dragging feet' on complying with fed court's anti-patronage orders
Longtime Illinois government reform advocate Michael Shakman and others have asked a federal judge to tack at least another year onto federal oversight of hiring practices under Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough -
IL High Court says state pension code doesn't let government cut disability benefits to terminated employees
The highest court in Illinois has ruled Cook County was wrong to refuse to continue disability benefits to a terminated employee with a nervous system disease, saying termination does not trigger a halt to such benefits. -
Reform watchdog: Fed court can look into state's hiring of unqualified COVID lab techs, contrary to Pritzker's claim
A state hiring watchdog is contending he has not conceded, as "misconstrued" by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, that two dozen allegedly unqualified temporary lab techs hired to help with Covid-19 tests, are outside the watchdog's federal mandate because they were hired off the street rather than promoted from within government. -
Pritzker: Federal court-appointed hiring monitor has no authority to evaluate IDPH COVID pandemic temp lab tech hires
The Pritzker administration has asked a federal judge to deny an attempt by a court-appointed state government hiring monitor to force the state to turn over details about how it hired allegedly unqualified lab techs at the Illinois Department of Public Health in the early days of the COVID pandemic -
Pritzker fighting to lift federal monitoring for political patronage hiring, system used by Madigan to boost power
Even as he talked with investigators in the federal prosecution that led to the indictment of former House Speaker Michael Madigan, Gov. JB Pritzker has been fighting to lift federal oversight of state hiring practices, a system exploited by Madigan to cement his grip on power statewide -
IL hiring watchdogs: Pritzker administration refusing to certify that political hiring isn't happening in state govt
In a new filing in a court fight over whether to continue federal court oversight over Illinois state government hiring practices, reform advocates allege Gov. JB Pritzker's administration won't agree to certify under oath that they have no knowledge of continued politically motivated hiring -
Pritzker: Fed appeals judges should end oversight of IL hiring now; Watchdogs: Corruption problems not yet fixed
A three-judge panel heard arguments on Dec. 10, as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker continues to press his case to throw off decades-old orders intended to tamp down corrupt government hiring practices -
Law firms entitled to $930K for making sure Cook Clerk Yarbrough's office complies with federal hiring oversight
Judge rules Chicago law firms instrumental in appointment of compliance administrator, and the fees are needed to sanction Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough for fighting against the effort to tighten scrutiny on her past and current government hiring practices. -
Pritzker must show corrupt hiring has stopped, can't easily restart, to end feds' oversight of IL govt jobs, reformers say
Two longtime reform advocates told a federal appeals court that Gov. JB Pritzker has not yet met the burden needed to win release from federal court orders imposing federal oversight of state hiring practices, despite Pritzker's claims to the contrary -
Pritzker asks appeals court to lift feds oversight of state hiring, imposed to block political hiring practices
Reform advocates have said Pritzker's request is premature, because the state hasn't shown it has stopped politically motivated hiring -
Pritzker to appeal federal judge's refusal to lift fed oversight of IL state government hiring practices
A federal judge had denied Pritzker's attempt to end court-appointed oversight of Illinois government hiring practices, saying there was still too much evidence of politically motivated hiring and promotion within agencies under the governor's supervision