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Path to Permanent Residency: PERM on December 7, 2022
If you are considering sponsoring an employee for the permanent residency process, it is important to know what you are getting yourself into.
Class action claims Bank of America didn't make customer deposits available immediately
The lawsuit, which plaintiffs say could include millions of customers, claims Bank of America's alleged failure to make $5,500 in deposits available to customers by at least the next business day cost customers fees and interest
Appeals court: DuPage judge wrong to step into fight over mail-in ballots while votes were being counted
A state appeals panel has sided with DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek in a court fight with State Rep. Deanne Mazzochi, saying courts have no ability to order election officials to follow the law when counting votes until after election officials say they are done counting ballots.
Judge grants final OK to $3.5M deal in fingerprints scan class action vs time clock vendor Ceridian
Lawyers will get 35% of the total settlement. Class members could receive as much as $700 each
Who is bail for? Question could decide fate of SAFE-T Act
Lawmakers have made changes to Illinois' sprawling, controversial criminal justice reform law. But the changes appear to have no legal bearing on the constitutional challenges to the law brought by dozens of Illinois state's attorneys
Attorney General Raoul Announces $6.6 Billion Settlement With Opioid Makers Teva and Allergan
Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced a final settlement with opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals and former opioid maker Allergan that requires the companies to provide funding and resources that will support states’ efforts to address the effects of opioid addiction.
Supporters of Illinois’ Truth in Politics Act, and their like, deserve contempt and ridicule
Under a bill introduced by Democratic State Rep. Denise Wang Stoneback, of Skokie, the so-called Truth in Politics Act could criminalize a broad range of blatantly political speech, if the government decides it is "misinformation"
Class action: Pandora Jewelry's virtual try-on tool allegedly violated Illinois biometrics law
Pandora Jewelry one of the latest targets of a class action lawsuit over face scans of its customers using an online virtual try-on tool, with potentially massive damages at stake.
IL Supreme Court: Cook County can't block data on whether Stroger Hospital is telling police about gunshot victims
A 6-1 majority of the Illinois Supreme Court agreed that Cook County can't use HIPPA to withhold data concerning when gunshot victims are treated, and when - or if - those treatments are reported to police, as required by law
Year in Review | the Wild Ride That Was Crypto and Fintech in 2022 on December 01
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'Truth in Politics' bill would criminalize 'false' political advertising; Plummer calls it an assault on free speech
A bill that criminalizes "libel and defamation" in Illinois political advertising has State Sen. Jason Plummer (R-Edwardsville) calling the proposal an attack on the right to free speech.
Class action can continue, for now, over cheese content in TGI Friday's Mozzarella Sticks snacks, but not vs TGIF
Complaint alleges TGI Friday's Mozzarella Sticks snacks contain cheddar, not mozzarella. The judge said TGI Friday's can't be sued, because it only lends its name to the products, which are made and sold by another company
Guidance on State and Local Paid Sick Leave Laws — Part IX: Unions and Leave Requirements: Examining How the Patchwork of Paid Sick Leave Laws Impacts Collective Bargaining Under the RLA and NLRA on November 30, 2022
Please join us for a multi-part series on recent developments involving state and local mandatory paid sick leave laws.
Appeals panel revives portion of ex-Oak Park village manager's pension lawsuit vs village
A federal appeals court said former Oak Park Village Manager Thomas Barwin had done enough to be allowed to press his claims the village wrongly blocked him from using his prior government service to purchase credits sufficient to get an Oak Park pension.
Des Plaines woman files class action vs KSN law firm over rent collection practices
A newly filed class action lawsuit accuses landlords' law firm Kovitz Shifrin & Nesbit of improper efforts to attempt to force tenants to pay back rent, allegedly including rejecting Covid rent relief funds available to tenants
IL Supreme Court: Landlord's insurance company not obligated to defend tenants over oven fire damage
Pekin residents were sued by an appliance repairman, who had been sued by the landlord's insurance company, after the tenants allegedly lit a gas stove amid repair process, setting fire to their rental home
Attorney General Raoul Joins Coalition Urging Apple to Protect Consumers’ Reproductive Health Information
Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 10 attorneys general, is expressing concerns about reproductive health privacy on Apple’s App Store following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Raoul and the attorneys general urged Apple to take practical steps to protect consumers’ private reproductive health information.
Judge: Loevy firm, not its ex-partner Drury, gets to lead face scans class action vs Clearview
The ruling from a Chicago federal judge gives the edge to Chicago-based Loevy & Loevy in a tussle with its former attorney, Scott Drury, over who can lay claim to a potential massive payday as lead attorneys in a sprawling biometrics case against facial recognition tech firm Clearview A.I.
Corporations can take it personally: Appeals panel says company can sue for defamation if disparaging emails sent to officers, directors
An appeals court has ruled a Chicago shipping corporation can claim it was defamed through emails sent to its management disparaging the company, saying managers are not the same as the 'corporation'
Affirmative Action: The Possible K-12 Impacts of the Supreme Court Cases Involving Harvard and UNC on November 28, 2022
Join Husch Blackwell and the Council of the Great City Schools for a discussion on Supreme Court cases Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.