Illinois Court of Claims
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Recent News About Illinois Court of Claims
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Chicago nursing home plaintiffs firm Levin & Perconti says they are representing more than a dozen families of Armed Forces veterans who died at a state nursing home under the supervision of political appointees of Gov. JB Pritzker.
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Lawsuit accuses the Illinois Gaming Board of leaking negative and confidential information about Gold Rush to the Chicago Tribune and the feds, while slowwalking FOIA requests submitted by Gold Rush to learn how it happened.
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An Illinois state employee who physically assaulted her supervisor, but was protected by her union and allowed to keep her job, has been awarded $360,000 in back pay as part of Illinois’ new state budget.
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A Chicago appeals panel has backed up a Cook County judge's refusal to allow a class action lawsuit, which accuses the University of Illinois of favoring politically connected applicants, to proceed, saying the Illinois Court of Claims, where such a lawsuit would need to be heard, can't handle class action lawsuits.
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A onetime professor of Greek at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is flunking the Illinois Court of Claims for dismissing his lawsuit against the school, in which he alleged school officials fired him as the result of a plot to discredit him and protect the jobs of other professors, saying the court denied him due process by dismissing his case against the school on the grounds he won a verdict against one of the professors in circuit court.
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A man who claimed the state wrongly used a new state law to collect more than $400,000 in taxes on the estate of his mother, who died four days before the tax law took effect, can’t pursue his claims against the state, because he filed in the wrong court, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled.
