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Little noticed Cook County court decision could prove big in fight over limits of government COVID rules
A Cook County judge ruled public health agencies need to be able to prove their quarantine orders are actually needed and backed by evidence. This will be used in other court fights, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints -
DeVore asks Springfield judge to block CPS from forcing students to mask
The attorney who won a restraining order against Gov. JB Pritzker's school COVID rules is now asking the same judge to issue an order vs Chicago Public Schools for 'unlawfully' still requiring student masks -
Pritzker asks IL Supreme Court to restore his power to force school students to mask, test, be excluded, over COVID
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says only the Illinois Supreme Court can "halt mischief," as school districts statewide ditch forced masking, testing and student exclusion policies that a Springfield judge says were illegal -
IL Supreme Court may be next stop for Pritzker's continued fight to reimpose school mask rules, other COVID mandates
Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul each promised to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to undo lower court rulings declaring Pritzker's COVID school rules to be non-existent, null, void -
Chicago Public Schools should be held in contempt for continuning to enforce mask mandate, says students' lawyer
Attorney Tom DeVore has asked a Springfield judge to require CPS and its CEO Pedro Martinez to explain why they shouldn't held in contempt for essentially ignoring the judge's order blocking enforcement of school mask mandates -
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 -
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 -
IL high school sports lawsuit vs Pritzker revised to now seek order barring potential high school COVID vax mandates
A legal challenge to Gov. JB Pritzker's use of emergency powers over high school athletics now has been amended to ask a Springfield judge to block Pritzker and others from requiring Illinois high school athletes and students to receive COVID vaccines -
'Illegal strikes... must be stopped': Parents to continue lawsuit vs CTU, despite deal to reopen Chicago Public Schools
The lawsuit vs the Chicago Teachers Union called the union's 'remote work action' an illegal strike that harmed children and families in Chicago -
Parents sue Chicago Teachers Union, ask judge to rule union's COVID 'remote work action' actually illegal strike
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 -
SCOTUS refuses school workers' claims unions unconstitutionally took dues after they tried to leave
Two Chicago teachers and a Moline custodian claimed their unions ignored the Supreme Court and the Constitution by limiting their ability to leave the union only to one "escape period" each year. -
Pritzker asks IL Supreme Court to send all school mask lawsuits to Cook County or Sangamon court
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, on behalf of Gov. JB Pritzker, filed a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court to consolidate and transfer several different cases, including a massive class action involving hundreds of parents and students vs 145 school districts, over Pritzker's school mask orders. -
Massive parents' class action says Pritzker, schools overstepped authority by imposing mask, COVID quarantine rules
The lawsuit targets Gov. JB Pritzker, as well as nearly 150 school districts statewide, including at least 69 districts from throughout the Chicago area. -
Chicago school board, teachers union ask SCOTUS to toss suit claiming union dues unconstitutionally choke teachers' free speech
The Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Board of Education are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse a request for a hearing by two teachers, who claim the union violated their free speech by deducting dues to subsidize political positions without their consent. -
Federal appeals panel agrees past Chicago Public Schools layoffs weren't racist, dealing another blow to CTU
Union said Black workers were disproportionately laid off in 2011, while CPS blamed declining enrollment. -
Attorneys general urge SCOTUS to rule that CTU violated teachers' speech rights by taking dues after teachers said stop
Attorneys general from Texas, Arizona, Missouri and 13 other states filed a brief in support of the class action lawsuit on behalf of 24,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers and other workers vs the Chicago Teachers Union. -
TRESSLER LLP: Tressler LLP Promotes Elizabeth Wagman to Partner
Tressler LLP has promoted attorney Elizabeth F. Wagman to partner. Elizabeth joined Tressler as senior counsel in 2020 and is a member of our Government and Education Practice Groups. -
Judge says trial needed to resolve CTU discrimination suit vs Chicago school board over treatment of Black teachers
A judge has refused to end a teachers union lawsuit, which accuses the Chicago Public Schools board of laying off Black teachers because of their race, saying only a jury can properly address the conflicting evidence. -
CTU didn't violate educators' rights by giving them only one window per year to rescind their membership, stop paying dues: Judge
A federal judge in Chicago tossed the class action lawsuit brought by teachers who claimed a U.S. Supreme Court decision should invalidate union member agreements that give members one time per year to quit the union. -
Where are Chicago parents at the bargaining table?
Illinois law gives parents no place in negotiations that decide the future of their children's schools.