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Pritzker to ask Springfield judge to keep school COVID mandates in place, pending appeal of order blocking his rules
The Illinois Attorney General, representing Pritzker, said he expects the appeal to be decided within two weeks
Apple should pay because Powerbeats headphones don't charge fully, don't always connect, lawsuit says
The class action lawsuit in Cook County court accuses Apple of misleading and deceptive advertising about the performance of Powerbeats Pro wireless headphones
Springfield judge slaps hold on IL statewide school mask mandate; Pritzker's powers not 'endless,' judge says
The judge issued a temporary restraining order on Pritzker's authority to force school districts to require students to wear masks and to exclude children suspected of being exposed to COVID from school without due process
IL Supreme Court: Workers comp law doesn't stop big money class actions vs employers over worker fingerprint scans
The high court said workers' claims under the Illinois biometrics privacy law aren't actual workplace injuries, and employers should look elsewhere for relief from the massive potential liability under the biometrics law
Class action: Fertility Clinics of Illinois should pay for big patient data breach
A class action on behalf of nearly 80,000 patients says the Fertility Clinics of Illinois failed to notify patients and regulators for months of a data breach that exposed personal information and medical records.
Lawsuit says Lurie Children's fired white male worker for complaining of race, sex discrimination, politics-based harassment
A former maintenance worker at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago says the hospital discriminated against him on the basis of race and sex and retaliated against him when he complained about political and sexual harassment from coworkers.
Judge puts hold on ex-IL State Police exec's suit over sex assault claims by worker allegedly covering up theft
The lawsuit from former director of the Illinois State Police Merit Board accuses ex-Merit Board CFO of exploiting ties to Pritzker to get him removed in bid to keep her job and forestall prosecution
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
Condo owner class action targets RealManage, HomeWiseDocs for 'unconscionable fees' charged for owner documents
The new lawsuit takes aim under the Illinois Condo Act at RealManage, which manages properties throughout the Chicago area, and HomeWiseDocs, which allegedly serves 1,300 condo associations in Illinois
Insurer says it shouldn't pay to defend Medline vs ethylene oxide lawsuits
Evanston Insurance says its policies exclude coverage for the kinds of EtO emissions Medline is accused of discharging in 90 personal injury lawsuits in Cook County court
Cook County judge tosses class actions vs ComEd over bribes to Madigan; Appeal coming
A Cook County judge ruled courts can't make ComEd repay potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in allegedly ill-gotten electricity rate increases, because to do so would require the courts to unconstitutionally question how Illinois state lawmakers approved the laws authorizing the higher rates
Ex-sports radio reporter Rodewald sues Niles West H.S. teacher, District 219 for defamation, harassment
The lawsuit claims a Niles high school teacher and her husband launched an online and phone harassment campaign against him, torpedoing certain career opportunities, and enabled another person to call him a "defender of racism"
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'
Stone Park asks to toss red light camera class action, says lead plaintiff didn't actually stop at red light
The village of Stone Park says the lead plaintiff on a class action over its red light camera system can't actually sue them, because the village dismissed his ticket and he didn't actually stop at the red light before he turned right and triggered the camera
Springfield judge to rule soon on request for order barring enforcement of school masks, student COVID 'exclusion'
Plaintiffs say Gov. JB Pritzker and 140 school districts overstepped the state's public health law in issuing statewide COVID mask, testing and student 'exclusion' mandates, unilaterally rewriting state quarantine rules in the process
Online ID verifier Jumio hit with yet another IL biometrics class action over user face scans
Jumio had settled similar claims in a different lawsuit in 2020, but new lawsuit says Jumio didn't change its policies or behavior, and now can be sued again under the same claims
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
Class action accuses El Milagro of 'fostering sexually hostile work environment' towards women
The class action lawsuit alleges the popular tortilla maker violated the Illinois Human Rights Act.
Fed appeals court: No order needed to bar Pritzker from again attempting to shut down religious services
A federal appeals panel says Pritzker hasn't tried to close houses of worship in 19 months, and deserves the 'respect' to allow him the chance to abide by Supreme Court rulings declaring other states violated the Constitution in ordering churches closed over COVID
Lawsuit: Skokie Fairview Elementary School 'prioritizes white comfort,' doesn't properly address racism concerns
In a new class action lawsuit, parents of Black and Latino students said Skokie District 72 leadership refused to accede to their demands for anti-racism training for students and staff at Fairview Elementary School in response to allegedly racist student behavior