An appeals panel has ruled that despite a developer's "despicable conduct," the owners of a Loop building failed to show they suffered damages necessary to press a claim against the developer, for falsely alleging in a suit the owners lied about their structure's square footage.
State appellate judges have taken the boot off a class action alleging the city skirted a state law capping municipal ordinance fines at $250 each, costing hundreds of thousands of people hundreds of millions of dollars
An Illinois appeals court rejected an objector's attempt to rewrite the 2020 settlement that ended a class action lawsuit accusing Adtalem Global Education of misleading marketing
The Illinois state board tasked with investigating misconduct accusations against judges has asked the Illinois Courts Commission to discipline First District Appellate Justice Sheldon A. Harris, who has announced he is retiring later this year
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled a jury was right to hold a Chicago company directly liable for a traffic collision, because the company told one of its drivers to haul an unsafely loaded truck despite the driver's concerns, finding an employer can be held liable both for the acts of their employees and for their own acts.
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a woman convicted of battering a child in Cook County, gets a new trial because the judge never swore in the jury, despite the fact the woman never objected until the appellate stage, saying the swearing of the jury, is a "defining moment that substantially impacts many crucial facets of the criminal jury trial process."
An appellate panel has ruled the widow of a former River Forest cop, who died at 45, cannot collect his pension until what would have been his 60th birthday.
The lawsuit has accused the city of Chicago of wrongly issuing at least 30,000 parking tickets with enhanced penalties for illegally parking in the city's downtown Central Business District, when they weren't parked in the District
Three state appellate justices have ruled a city permit allowing the Lyric Opera to use a storage vault under a sidewalk adjoining the Civic Opera House allows City Hall to pursue the Lyric and owners of the opera house for coverage in a lawsuit brought by a woman who tripped on that city sidewalk
Former Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis' cooperation with feds makes it OK for him to spend campaign cash on legal defense of corruption investigation, the state high court says
While the restaurant only closed because the governor ordered them to do so, it was the COVID-19 virus that actually caused the losses, so the steep losses the businesses suffered aren't physical losses covered by insurance policies, state appeals judges ruled
A federal judge says the Osundairo brothers can keep suing lawyer Tina Glandian for asserting in a TV interview that the brothers had worn "whiteface" when they allegedly helped Jussie Smollett stage the alleged hate crime attack against the actor
A Cook County judge says the tech giant's complaint isn't legally specific enough at this point to be allowed to continue. He gave the company the chance to try again, if it wishes.
Hospitals argued HIPAA should shield them from class actions brought under Illinois' biometrics law by workers who needed to scan their fingerprints to access locked medicine dispensary systems
A suit against McDonald's for allegedly advertising false prices at O'Hare, which had been dismissed, will begin again, because an appeals panel has ruled the judge in the case should have OK'd plaintiff's motion to substitute her with another judge.
