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Current Trends in Landlord-Tenant Subrogation Claims on November 9, 2022
Marisa L. Saber and Matthew F. Policastro will host a Cozen O'Connor webinar titled, "Current Trends in Landlord-Tenant Subrogation Claims."
Appeals panel won't vacate ruling allowing Chicago to impose Covid vaccine mandate on police officers, despite union contract
Arbitrator determined vaccine policy is fair exercise of city's management rights
Class action: Sysco improperly uses dash cams to scan faces of truck drivers, violates Illinois biometrics' law
The class action against food distributor Sysco is similar to a federal legal action against tech firm Samsara, which allegedly supplies Sysco with its truck dash cameras, which are installed to monitor drivers for fatigue and other distractions and increase roadway safety.
Littler Expands Chicago Office with Two New Shareholders
Littler Expands Chicago Office with Two New Shareholders.
Chicago homicide detectives to testify in 'torture' cases, to challenge easy paydays for 'convicted murderers,' lawyers
It is estimated the city of Chicago has paid more than $130 million to settle claims brought in cases that critics say have been driven by political pressure generated from campaigns by trial lawyers to sympathetic media, and not by new evidence.
Ex-Loevy & Loevy lawyer says he deserves to be lead counsel in big money class action vs. Clearview over face scans
Attorney Scott Drury has pushed back against accusations he attempted to improperly push his former law firm, Loevy & Loevy, out of potentially millions of dollars in legal fees from a possible biometrics class action settlement with facial recognition tech firm Clearview AI.
Filing: Raoul violating legal rules, law by giving 'conflicted' trial lawyers state power to help investigate insulin prices
Caremark and other pharmacy benefit managers have asked a Cook County judge to disqualify out-of-state trial lawyers hired by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to assist with an investigation into insulin pricing practices. The companies say the lawyers could use the power of Raoul's office to help them in other lawsuits vs the companies
'Unprecedented spending' by Illinois Democrats erodes confidence in Supreme Court independence, officials say
SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker, having spent $353 million of his personal fortune on elections in five years, dug into a different pocket for Democrat Supreme Court candidates Elizabeth Rochford and Mary O’Brien.
Energy transition: Risks and opportunities for energy companies in uncertain times on November 3, 2022
Energy transition: Risks and opportunities for energy companies in uncertain times on November 3, 2022.
State's attorneys' lawsuits to strike down SAFE-T Act head to court soon in Kankakee County
The Illinois Supreme Court consolidated 57 lawsuits challenging the SAFE-T Act, the law that will eliminate cash bail in Illinois and presumes nearly all criminal defendants cannot be held in jail before trial. The lawsuits will be led by Kankakee County State's Attorney Jim Rowe, with assistance from six other state's attorneys, including prosecutors in Will and McHenry counties
Lightfoot gets judge to toss lawsuit from radio host barred from Chicago city press conferences
Police say they revoked Kelly's access to Lightfoot because of his conduct at a July 2022 press conference
Sterigenics: $363 million verdict in cancer suit over EtO emissions based wrongly on 'passion' and 'class prejudices'
A company that sterilized medical equipment in suburban Willowbrook is asking a Cook County judge to toss a verdict that could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly causing a woman's cancer.
Health care legal executive Daniel M. Tardiff joins Thompson Coburn’s Health Care group
Health care legal executive Daniel M. Tardiff joins Thompson Coburn’s Health Care group.
ESOP 2022: Current Trends and Hot Topics Webinar on November 2, 2022
ESOP 2022: Current Trends and Hot Topics Webinar on November 2, 2022.
Cook County Treasurer, Circuit Clerk ask federal court to lift oversight of patronage hiring
The motions to lift the so-called Shakman Decrees are supported by reform advocates who had filed suit to impose the court ordered monitoring decades ago
'Workers Rights Amendment' would give Chicago Teachers Union, other unelected union bosses power to set your taxes
Voters should reject Amendment 1, which would create a "democracy" in which democratically elected lawmakers lose power to make laws, replaced by contract terms negotiated between public worker unions and the elected officials they control, warns the Illinois Policy Institute
Benson vs. CCRRG Case Study – The Members’ Toolkit at Work on November 3, 2022
Benson vs. CCRRG Case Study – The Members’ Toolkit at Work on November 3, 2022.
Lawsuit: Loyola Chicago blocked student from Covid testing, then expelled her for not taking Covid tests
A lawsuit in federal court says a freshman student was expelled in the fall of 2021 for failing to comply with Loyola University Chicago's Covid testing program, even though they wouldn't let her enter the testing program, because she was still a month away from turning 18
Teacher: Suit vs Evanston D65 not to silence speech, but to end 'hostile environment' vs white students, educators
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 says allowing the white middle school teacher's lawsuit to proceed would violate the school district's speech rights. The teacher says the district's 'anti-racist' priorities are illegally hostile toward white students and educators
State Rep. Carroll, who clashed with Edelson over big TikTok settlement, faces more public misconduct accusations
State Rep. Jonathan Carroll, D-Northbrook, was accused last year of using his office to allegedly threaten a prominent class action law firm engaged in a court fight with a legal team that included his now-estranged wife over the fate of $30 million in attorney fees from a $92 million settlement with TikTok. He is now accused of firing a female staffer after she allegedly refused requests to terminate her pregnancy