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Alejandro Caffarelli Named to Super Lawyers Top 100.
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Downstate lawyer Tom DeVore, who led the case that secured a court order blocking Pritzker's school mask mandates, says he will seek to challenge Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who he said has acted as Pritzker's "personal attorney" rather than "the people's legal counsel"
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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
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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
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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Jan. 21 in a Cook County case, that the statute of limitations in a legal malpractice matter did not begin running until the client actually suffered damages as a result of the alleged malpractice, not years before when the alleged malpractice occurred.
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A coalition of road and transportation contractors have asked the Illinois Supreme Court to rule that Cook County has violated the so-called Safe Roads Amendment by refusing to spend $250 million more annually on transportation projects, rather than county operations.
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The parents of Chicago Public Schools students assert the union has violated state labor law and their contract by refusing to come to schools, even though CPS has declared school can be carried out safely amid the COVID surge
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Democrat mapmakers were "motivated by partisan political considerations," a panel of federal judges said, so it doesn't matter that they divided Latino and Black populations up among various districts, rather than maximizing majority minority districts
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Attorney General Raoul Announces Pilot Program With National Child Identification Program.
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The arbitrator gave Chicago employees until Jan. 31 to complete the vaccine course, or risk losing their jobs, under Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's mandate
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Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies Continues its Expansion Adding Sydney Corryn Holman to its City of Chicago and State of Illinois Practice.
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Chicago City Hall has told a Cook County judge it expects to have resolved its ongoing dispute with labor unions over its COVID vaccine mandates before the Dec. 31 deadline for city workers to get the vaccine or risk getting fired.
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The unions are seeking a court order similar to one granted to Chicago's police union, ordering the city to halt enforcement of the vaccine mandate until arbitration between the city and union can be completed over Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Dec. 31 COVID vaccine mandate.
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Split appeals panel said judge was wrong to order total cleanup of Ford Heights property, work that the landowners estimated would cost $100 million or more.
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A Cook County judge has stayed enforcement of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's COVID vaccine mandate against the city's police officers, saying the cops have been denied "meaningful" arbitration over the rules.
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A group of Chicago firefighters have filed suit in federal court, arguing COVID vaccine mandates imposed by Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are unconstitutional.
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The taxes violate a section of the Illinois state constitution governing how taxes can be enacted, and for what purposes, the state high court ruled, sidestepping arguments over whether the taxes violated the right to keep and bear arms.
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The judge said the Chicago Department of Aviation, which employed the aviation security officers, wasn't really a law enforcement agency, so the ASOs weren't really cops.
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The paramedics argue the vaccination and testing mandates take no account for natural immunity, violate their rights to "bodily autonomy" and due process, and are unconstitutional.
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Rob L. Kohen Recognized by Law Bulletin Media as a 2021 ‘forty Under 40’ Honoree.
