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Judge: Police union contract, IL labor law blocks Chicago from simply firing cops for not getting COVID vax
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. -
Chicago firefighters sue to block Lightfoot, Pritzker COVID vax mandates
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. -
Appeals panel says Chicago owes $1M verdict to burglar shot to death by cops while fleeing electronics store burglary
The appellate court also ruled the slain man's two accomplices should also get the chance to sue the city, too. -
O'Hare aviation security officers can't sue city for stripping police powers after 2017 passenger dragging video, judge says
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. -
Midway worker reported alleged lies about runway conditions, OK to continue retaliation suit vs city, ex-bosses
FAA, Chicago inspector general affirmed reports of falsified runway information, allegedly to benefit Southwest -
Black, Latino Chicago residents win chance to press class action vs CPD past stop-and-frisk policy
Reworked complaint targets police policy, training rather than quotas and paper trail -
Appeals panel says Chicago cops break no laws by junking jail detainees' unclaimed property after 30 days
Men argued city gives insufficient notice of how to reclaim items surrendered during arrest -
Supreme Court won't stop construction of Obama Center, alleged destruction of Chicago's Jackson Park
A petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asserted judges have allowed federal regulatory agencies to gloss over potential extensive damage to Jackson Park's nature and historical character from the planned Obama Presidential Center, "at the beck and call of powerful political forces." -
Appeals panel tosses class action over Chicago vehicle impoundment fees
Justices: Vehicle owners were wrong about state law precluding city ordinance -
General Iron turns to Cook Co. court, says it followed rules, yet city refuses permit for new scrap metal recycling plant
Metal recycler General Iron lost in federal court, on a narrow ruling, and now has taken to state court its claims that the city has violated its own rules and the law in bowing to activists opposed to its new South Side recycling facility. -
Foxx seeks to block more questions for ex-top deputy over dropped prosecution of men for murders, child abductions
Lawyers for Chicago Police officers are seeking to question former Cook County FIrst Assistant State's Attorney Eric Sussman to learn how the State's Attorney's office reached the decision to walk away from the prosecution of two men who had earlier confessed to the murders of a Chicago couple in a plot to take their children. -
Judge: Chicago's bow to activists, imperling General Iron permit, not 'final decision,' so not yet illegal taking
While Chicago may have violated its own permitting rules and state law at the behest of left-wing activists, the city hasn't yet "taken" General Iron's property, so the company can't yet sue the city in federal court, a federal judge said. -
Cops, ex-prosecutor: Wrongful prosection suit must end, because Foxx merely dropped '94 rape, murder case vs two men
A group of Chicago cops and a former Cook County ASA say they were left to face lawsuits after State's Attorney Kim Foxx opted not to contest innocence claims from two who had confessed to a brutal 1994 rape and murder, despite her deputies' continued belief the two men were guilty. -
Southside recycler lawsuit: City bowed to activists, violated rules, seized property by refusing permit; Owes $100M+
General Iron affiliate has asked a federal judge to order the city to pay it more than $100 million and issue a permit that it cannot legally deny, for a new metal recycling facility on Chicago's Southeast side. -
Class action accuses Chicago cops of using 'Investigative Alerts' to support no-warrant arrests
A woman arrested months later for her alleged role in looting amid the riots of Aug. 9, 2020, asserts police arrested her and thousands of others unconstitutionally under arrest orders issued under the practice known as "Investigative Alerts." -
Magistrate who oversaw discovery in Chicago's opioid lawsuit recuses himself, at city's request
Judge Kim's sister is a lawyer for pharma defendant, which lawyers for the city of Chicago said presents unavoidable conflict. The drug makers argued the recusal was unncessary, and will serve to only again "disrupt" the already lengthy court proceedings over the city's lawsuit. -
Already under strain from sterilization plant closures, coronavirus outbreak adds 'pressure' on medical device supplies
Medical device makers and the FDA have said for months that efforts to close sterilization plants that produce millions of key medical devices would constrain health care supply. The coronavirus outbreak only increases the strain, the makers say. -
Trade orgs warn EPA of shortages in key health care items, spices, if move too harshly vs use of ethylene oxide
American Spice Trade Association and AdvaMed both warn EPA against tightening the screws too tightly on facilities that use EtO to sterilize medical devices and keep spices free from Salmonella and other pathogens. -
Can Sterigenics easily swap sterilants? Lawyers say yes; FDA, medical device makers less certain
Lawyers leading a growing number of lawsuits vs Sterigenics say the medical device sterilizer can easily substitute another sterilization method for ethylene oxide. The FDA and medical device makers seem less certain. -
Chicago asks judge to toss HomeAway's lawsuit over housing ordinance
The City of Chicago has requested the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in the Eastern Division dismiss a case that alleges one of its regulations favors Airbnb against competitor, HomeAway.com Inc.