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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 18 attorneys general, today called on Congress to pass the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Accountability Act of 2023.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced he is joining the NCAA in requesting a federal judge extend his temporary restraining order granted earlier this week prohibiting the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from enforcing its transfer eligibility rule until at least the end of the academic year.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general, urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to permit the Fearless Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides grant opportunities to Black women entrepreneurs, to continue its philanthropic efforts.
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has agreed to never attempt to enforce a new state law targeting abortion 'misinformation.' The law was labeled a blatant attempt to silence religious and political speech of abortion opponents
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The state defendants accused of violating the rights of law-abiding gun owners in Illinois seek to dismiss the new due process claims raised in the amended complaint filed by gun advocates, which allege citizens did not receive proper notice of the vague “assault weapons” ban rules.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett directed the state to respond to the petitioners' assertions that, not only is the law unconstitutional, but federal judges in Chicago have twisted SCOTUS rulings to say the state is clearly allowed to ban "dangerous" weapons that aren't protected by the Second Amendment
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The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, represented by IL A/G, can't use legal doctrine of 'sovereign immunity' to escape demand to pay therapist's legal bills in fight over state's wrongful order to present mental health care notes for doctor seeking to restart career
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In seeming 4-3 decision, court's majority says gun ban doesn't violate equal protection rights. Dissents divided, as Pritzker-backed justice says the law wrongly allows cops to keep gun rights, and conservatives say lawmakers unconstitutionally OK'd the law
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he believes the state has the power to "prosecute people" for speech about abortion, if the state of Illinois determines that otherwise constitutionally-protected speech is "deceptive."
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The Carle Foundation has stood at the center of a years-long court battle over whether hospital tax exemptions were constitutional.
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A Rockford federal judge granted a preliminary injunction sought by pro-life groups and so-called crisis pregnancy centers, who said Illinois, under Gov. JB Pritkzer and Attorney General Kwame Raoul, was attempting to use the new law to silence abortion opponents unconstitutionally
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A state appeals court in Springfield says Attorney General Raoul within his power to pull plug on suit, despite political implications against Gov. JB Prtizker
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The law empowers Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, a staunch supporter of unlimited abortion rights, to use a state consumer fraud law to investigate, prosecute and potentially fine and shut down pro-life pregnancy centers if Raoul believes they are spreading "misinformation" about abortion
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The Democratic supermajority on the court agreed that the state constitution does not block lawmakers from redefining 'bail' to fit progressive policy goals without first amending the state constitution
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The lawsuit from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul accuses Olympus Salt of allegedly running a salt distribution operation without permits for alleged particulate matter emissions
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Raoul can't shield information from agencies whose data he used to build water pollution lawsuit, federal judge says
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A federal judge denied DoorDash's request to force the city to turn over communications and other records with the law firm of Cohen Milstein, to determine who is actually directing the city's lawsuit vs DoorDash over its fee structure. The firm has a contingency agreement with the city, meaning they could claim a big chunk of the city's proceeds
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The law would restrict lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of state laws and actions by Gov. JB Pritzker and other state officers to courts in Cook County and Sangamon County. It could yet, in turn, also be challenged as unconstitutional, critics say
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A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction, forbidding state officials from enforcing laws enacted in 2021 forbidding out-of-state judicial campaign donations and limiting individual donations to $500,000. Critics said the laws were enacted to give Democrats a money edge in state Supreme Court races
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Illinois' ban on so-called 'assault weapons' will remain in place, likely through much of the summer, as the Supreme Court turned aside a long-shot bid for an emergency injunction blocking enforcement of the law while a federal appeals court and the Illinois Supreme Court consider constitutional challenges to the gun ban
