Chicago’s city Inspector General has asked a Cook County judge to force a former candidate for Chicago alderman to testify amid an investigation into campaign finance law violations.
Paul Hansmeier, one of two Prenda lawyers behind a scheme to use lawsuit threats to allegedly shakedown downloaders of online porn, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
A state appeals panel has ruled Skokie wrongly denied a firefighter free lifetime health insurance benefits, saying it didn't matter the firefighter continued on the job in the same capacity after he was diagnosed with an aneurysm, nearly a year before he allegedly suffered symptoms following a work incident
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is poised to become the first appeals court in the country to decide whether a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision could stop additional plaintiffs from joining class action lawsuits in states where they don't live.
Saying state officials are afraid “the truth will come out” about Gov. JB Pritzker’s order to close Sterigenics’ Willowbrook facility, Sterigenics has asked a DuPage County judge to force state officials to speed up their response to Sterigenics’ lawsuit and allow Sterigenics’ lawyers to question top Illinois environmental regulators under oath.
An Illinois state employee who physically assaulted her supervisor, but was protected by her union and allowed to keep her job, has been awarded $360,000 in back pay as part of Illinois’ new state budget.
A former Homer Glen attorney who was convicted of trying to hire someone to murder his ex-wife is among a group of eight lawyers disbarred in May by the Illinois Supreme Court. The state high court also suspended 11 other Illinois lawyers, including a downstate lawyer who falsified his home address to seek election as a circuit judge.
A provision intended to use an "advisory opinion" from former Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madign to keep online daily fantasy sports sites from grabbing a piece of a new legal Illinois sports betting market for three years could also penalize the casino and race track operators supporting the penalty, as they also could run afoul of a different advisory opinion, authored in 2001 by former Ill. Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan.
A Chicago couple has asked a Cook County judge to order the Chicago Tenants Rights Law firm to pay more than $86,000, accusing the firm of mishandling their case against a landlord over a $3,400 security deposit and leaving the couple on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees.
As state and federal courts grapple with the legal questions of what comes next, a state-imposed shutdown of a Willowbrook medical device sterilization facility has begun to have ripple effects for health care facilities and patients far from the suburbs of Chicago.
An Evanston couple has filed suit against Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish and his wife, claiming the Darvishes installed a fence that infringes on their property and interferes with the plaintiffs' access to Lake Michigan.
Bradford Townsend, Schiller Park's former village manager and comptroller, is suing the village, saying they owe him money after cutting off his pay at the end of January when the village named an interim manager without firing Townsend.
Orland Park's village manager is suing a critic of his actions, alleging a robocall falsely accused him of wasting $14 million of village taxpayer money on "junk landscaping" and then configuring the village budget to hide the spending.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has come under fire from her colleagues in the Chicago area and across the state, as the association representing Illinois’ various county prosecutors blasted her handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollett.
An Illinois appeals court has upheld state revenue officials' decision to deny a tax exemption to a suburban Chicago hospice facility.
A Romeoville-based trucking and warehousing company has been hit with a class action lawsuit under a state biometrics privacy law, accusing the company of violating employees' rights by compelling them to scan their fingerprints each time they punch in and out of a work shift.
A lawsuit will continue against a Will County city over the drowning deaths of two children in the Kankakee River, a state appeals court has ruled.
A class action lawsuit is demanding Mexican discount airline Interjet be made to pay customers to whom it has refused refunds for cancelled flights.
A judge has sealed off municipal lawyer Michael Del Galdo's divorce case from public view, as Del Galdo seeks to keep his financials under wraps. But billing and payment records obtained under FOIA shows Del Galdo's law firm has continued to collect likely millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded money in recent years from the Cook County suburban governments he and his firm represent.
Despite an Illinois Supreme Court ruling seeming to fling wide the gates for a surge of new lawsuits against employers and others under an Illinois biometric privacy law, businesses targeted by such litigation can still take steps to reduce their risk of massive damages, an attorney with expertise in the field says.
Wendy's served with class action over drive thru accessibility for the blind; McDonald's battling similar cases
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from Cook County Record. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Alerts Sign-up
Alerts Sign-up
