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The Illinois state board tasked with investigating misconduct accusations against judges has asked the Illinois Courts Commission to discipline First District Appellate Justice Sheldon A. Harris, who has announced he is retiring later this year
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The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled a jury was right to hold a Chicago company directly liable for a traffic collision, because the company told one of its drivers to haul an unsafely loaded truck despite the driver's concerns, finding an employer can be held liable both for the acts of their employees and for their own acts.
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Chicago Bears great pursuing defamation claims against people who said he harassed a woman and was drunk at corporate function
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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the Illinois state constitution's transportation lockbox amendment applies to local governments, just as to the state
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The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a woman convicted of battering a child in Cook County, gets a new trial because the judge never swore in the jury, despite the fact the woman never objected until the appellate stage, saying the swearing of the jury, is a "defining moment that substantially impacts many crucial facets of the criminal jury trial process."
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An appellate panel has ruled the widow of a former River Forest cop, who died at 45, cannot collect his pension until what would have been his 60th birthday.
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The lawsuit has accused the city of Chicago of wrongly issuing at least 30,000 parking tickets with enhanced penalties for illegally parking in the city's downtown Central Business District, when they weren't parked in the District
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Rosa Tumialán Joins Tressler's Insurance Practice Group.
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Policyholders must formally request reimbursement, otherwise insurers may just cover cash value of new car
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Three state appellate justices have ruled a city permit allowing the Lyric Opera to use a storage vault under a sidewalk adjoining the Civic Opera House allows City Hall to pursue the Lyric and owners of the opera house for coverage in a lawsuit brought by a woman who tripped on that city sidewalk
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Former Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis' cooperation with feds makes it OK for him to spend campaign cash on legal defense of corruption investigation, the state high court says
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While the restaurant only closed because the governor ordered them to do so, it was the COVID-19 virus that actually caused the losses, so the steep losses the businesses suffered aren't physical losses covered by insurance policies, state appeals judges ruled
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A federal judge says the Osundairo brothers can keep suing lawyer Tina Glandian for asserting in a TV interview that the brothers had worn "whiteface" when they allegedly helped Jussie Smollett stage the alleged hate crime attack against the actor
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A Cook County judge says the tech giant's complaint isn't legally specific enough at this point to be allowed to continue. He gave the company the chance to try again, if it wishes.
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Hospitals argued HIPAA should shield them from class actions brought under Illinois' biometrics law by workers who needed to scan their fingerprints to access locked medicine dispensary systems
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A suit against McDonald's for allegedly advertising false prices at O'Hare, which had been dismissed, will begin again, because an appeals panel has ruled the judge in the case should have OK'd plaintiff's motion to substitute her with another judge.
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A Cook County judge had ruled workers' claims over fingerprint scans were separate from their union contract. But a state appeals panel said they would not break with a decision set by a federal appeals court on the question.
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A state appeals panel says the dispute over lawyers' work over the sale of a Barrington Hills property should have been allowed to continue with a substitution of plaintiffs
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Appellate judges said the evidence shows Anthony Abbate didn't fear arrest and tampered with investigation of attack on bartender, boosting the pension board's decision to invalidate his pension
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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