Gov. JB Pritzker continues to fight in court against a Geneva restaurant owner, who is seeking a court order declaring Pritzker violated the law in issuing a pandemic-related indoor dining ban last fall
An Illinois woman is suing Brittlan II, LLC, which owns and operates several McDonald's restaurants, alleging that the company violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
The state high court's inability to rule on the hotly contested gun rights question means the ruling of two justices on a state appeals court will decide whether Deerfield's assault weapons ban was legally enacted
A new class action lawsuit demands the village of Stone Park refund $100 tickets paid by people who received red light camera tickets for stopping beyond the white stop line when they were turning right on red, even though state law says such tickets can't be issued
A new Illinois law prohibiting judicial candidates from accepting out-of-state and so-called "dark money" anonymous contributions is being called unconstitutional by a First Amendment advocacy group.
Attorney Tom Devore has represented clients in a string of lawsuits vs Gov. JB Pritzker since May 2020 over Pritzker's use of executive powers and COVID-related mandates
A Rockford judge has ruled the Winnebago County Health Department was wrong to deny continued employment to a Catholic nurse who objected to the department's contraception and abortion referral services, saying the agency could have done more to accommodate her conscience.
Downstate attorney Tom Devore, who is behind a barrage of lawsuits vs Gov. JB Pritzker and others, says proposed changes to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act are an 'absurd' attempt to legally justify past actions by Pritzker related to COVID vaccine mandates and COVID-related restrictions.
The filing comes in response to a legal challenge brought in September by Naperville firefighters, who assert state and local COVID vaccine and testing mandates violate their rights.
A Chicago federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $92 million settlement of a lawsuit that accuses TikTok of breaking privacy laws, overriding objections the payout falls short and users are still not fully protected.
A Cook County judge is again deciding whether to dismiss the lawsuit brought by an ex-Palatine High School teacher who says a Black Lives Matter activist, who has since been elected to the Palatine school board, wrongly accused her of racism, leading to her being fired.
An appeals panel has hit the delete button on a lawsuit by the owners of the defunct online broker Ditto Trade, which claimed Crain's Chicago Business ran a defamatory news story about the owners, saying not only did Crain's act without malice, the story was true.
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.
A federal judge says the plaintiffs can't show Madigan exerted "improper" influence on state lawmakers to pass new state laws beneficial to ComEd, so their racketeering case over ComEd's alleged bribes can't continue.
More than half of employers could require worker vaccinations by the end of 2021, potentially setting the stage for a surge of lawsuits, should requests for exemptions be ignored or denied.
A Cook County judge stepped back from his order stripping parental rights from an unvaccinated mom without a hearing, but the judge's actions could signal brutal court fights ahead for other unvaccinated parents, a leading Illinois family law attorney says.
