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IL Supreme Court: Workers comp law doesn't stop big money class actions vs employers over worker fingerprint scans
The high court said workers' claims under the Illinois biometrics privacy law aren't actual workplace injuries, and employers should look elsewhere for relief from the massive potential liability under the biometrics law -
Credit $200B federal bailout, not Pritzker’s actions, for 'improved' 2023 IL budget
An honest assessment would tell Illinoisans the state needs massive reforms to begin fixing the structural problems temporarily bandaged by unprecedented, massive COVID-related federal financial aid, says an analysis from Wirepoints. -
Lake County citizen McConchie seeks to intervene in Madison County's challenge to judicial redistricting
SPRINGFIELD – Lake County citizen Dan McConchie aims to challenge division of his county into judicial subcircuits as a partner with Madison County at Sangamon County circuit court. -
Judge puts hold on ex-IL State Police exec's suit over sex assault claims by worker allegedly covering up theft
The lawsuit from former director of the Illinois State Police Merit Board accuses ex-Merit Board CFO of exploiting ties to Pritzker to get him removed in bid to keep her job and forestall prosecution -
Cook County judge tosses class actions vs ComEd over bribes to Madigan; Appeal coming
A Cook County judge ruled courts can't make ComEd repay potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in allegedly ill-gotten electricity rate increases, because to do so would require the courts to unconstitutionally question how Illinois state lawmakers approved the laws authorizing the higher rates -
Vaccine registry proposal is tops in totalitarianism
Just when you think Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly could not possibly come up with anything more totalitarian than canceling elections in places where opposition to their regime is growing, a member of the super majority came up with one. -
IL Supreme Court to decide if IL 'transportation lockbox' amendment applies to Cook County, as well as state govt
A coalition of road and transportation contractors have asked the Illinois Supreme Court to rule that Cook County has violated the so-called Safe Roads Amendment by refusing to spend $250 million more annually on transportation projects, rather than county operations. -
'Gerrymandering of the judiciary': New judicial maps drawn in Cook, collar counties, downstate
Democrats say the changes are needed to boost diversity on the bench. Republican critics say the changes are simply efforts by Democrats to boost their hold on power in the state's courts -
Judges say Dems' partisan power grab in drawing new maps didn't also violate Voting Rights Act
Democrat mapmakers were "motivated by partisan political considerations," a panel of federal judges said, so it doesn't matter that they divided Latino and Black populations up among various districts, rather than maximizing majority minority districts -
Federal appeals panel says IL Supreme Court must weigh in on whether biometrics class actions can be limited
White Castle argued only an employee's the first fingerprint scan can violate BIPA; Plaintiffs are seeking hundreds or even thousands more claims for each employee to claim potentially 'staggering' damages against employers -
Ex-State Police Merit Board CFO used sex assault claims, ties to Pritzker to try to thwart review of alleged fake OT records: Court filing
A judge could soon decide whether the former head of the Illinois State Police Merit Board should be allowed to press his claims that one of his former employees had falsely accused him of sexual assault, and exploited her ties to Gov. JB Pritzker, to get him removed -
IL Dems, challengers spar in court over whose map would result in more Latino, Black lawmakers elected
Republicans and Latino and Black advocates told a panel of federal judges that Illinois Democrats drew a new state legislative district map solely to protect Democratic incumbents and boost their party power, stepping on Black and Latino voting rights in the process. -
Madison, St. Clair and Cook Counties collectively rank No. 5 on 'Judicial Hellholes' report
Madison, St. Clair and Cook Counties together ranked No. 5 in the American Tort Reform Association’s (ATRA) annual “Judicial Hellholes” report, up from last year’s No. 8 ranking. -
Dems: Legislative maps drawn using politics, not race, so no need to alter maps just to boost Black, Latino districts
Illinois' top Democratic lawmakers asked a panel of federal judges to ignore 'remedial maps' filed by Latino and Black advocacy organizations, with Republican lawmakers, even though the challengers' maps appear to significantly boost the number of majority-minority legislative districts. -
Illinois pension shortfall surpasses $500 billion, average debt burden now $110,000 per household
Illinois just reached an alarming milestone: each Illinois household is now on the hook for, on average, $110,000 in government-worker retirement debts. That figure is the result of dividing Illinois’ $530 billion in state and local retirement shortfalls among the state’s 4.9 million households. In 2019, the burden was $90,000 per household. -
IL Supreme Court deadlocks over Deerfield assault weapons ban, meaning ban stands
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 -
Appeals panel says McHenry County road districts can keep challenging law letting voters dissolve townships
Even though no dissolution is imminent, three appeals judges said the state can't just dismiss the case, under the public interest exception. -
Republicans, Latino advocates file proposed map to 'correct constitutional defects' of Dems' state districts
The proposed new map, filed with federal judges, would nearly triple the number of majority Latino state House and Senate districts, compared to plan approved by Democrats and signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in September -
Devore sues Pritzker for defamation for calling him a 'grifter' for suing Pritzker over COVID mandates
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 -
Challenges incoming to Dems' COVID vax-related changes to IL Right of Conscience Law?
Unusual bid by the current Democratic majority in Springfield to not only strip away conscience protections from COVID vaccine mandate objectors, but declare what lawmakers meant decades earlier when the IL Conscience Act was approved, may open those changes to the law up to legal challenges.