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DeVore asks Springfield judge to block CPS from forcing students to mask
The attorney who won a restraining order against Gov. JB Pritzker's school COVID rules is now asking the same judge to issue an order vs Chicago Public Schools for 'unlawfully' still requiring student masks -
IL Supreme Court won't consider, for now, whether biometrics lawsuits are limited to two-year personal injury time window
The state high court has rejected a petition to bypass a state appeals court on the question of whether potentially ruinous class actions under the state's biometrics privacy law should be restricted to a two-year, rather than five-year, statute of limitations -
Dissent: IL Supreme Court should have decided whether Pritzker broke the law in imposing school COVID mandates
Two Republican justices said the state high court's Democratic majority had erred in passing on the chance to determine whether a Springfield judge had properly blocked Gov. JB Pritzker from enforcing his school mask, testing and exclusion rules -
IL Supreme Court denies Pritzker appeal over school mask mandates as moot, vacates restraining order
Gov. JB Pritzker warned he may attempt to impose mask mandates again in the future, if he believes they are needed -
No COVID emergency to justify giving Pritzker back his emergency powers over schools: DeVore filing
The lawyer for Illinois students, parents and educators responded to Gov. JB Pritzker's petition asking the Illinois Supreme Court to put a hold on a Springfield judge's order barring Pritzker from enforcing his school mask mandate and other COVID restrictions -
Appeals panel: IL liquor control law doesn't define an unborn fetus as a 'person,' family can't sue taverns for DUI death
The state's Wrongful Death law allows lawsuits for the deaths of unborn children, but Illinois' Dramshop Act, which governs when taverns can be sued for death and injuries, includes no such provisions, the appellate justices said -
DeVore announces Illinois Attorney General campaign; Vows to never 'represent the governor against the people'
Greenville attorney Tom DeVore, who confirmed that he will run on the Republican ticket for Illinois Attorney General, said he had no intentions of pursuing politics until he watched children across the state stand up for themselves by walking into school without masks and vowed to fight for the people rather than against them. -
IL Supreme Court to lift statewide courthouse mask mandate Feb. 28
The Illinois Supreme Court will end the courthouse mask mandate it has had in place since last September, at the same time Gov. JB Pritzker lifts his statewide indoor mask mandate -
Pritzker asks IL Supreme Court to restore his power to force school students to mask, test, be excluded, over COVID
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says only the Illinois Supreme Court can "halt mischief," as school districts statewide ditch forced masking, testing and student exclusion policies that a Springfield judge says were illegal -
Jones Day adds seven U.S. Supreme Court clerks from the October 2020 Term
Jones Day adds seven U.S. Supreme Court clerks from the October 2020 Term. -
Hard time fighting back: Employers seek defenses vs rising biometrics class actions, emboldened settlement demands
A January Illinois Supreme Court decision effectively ended employers' efforts to use Illinois' workers' comp law to beat biometrics class actions, and may have emboldened the plaintiff’s bar to seek even higher settlements -
IL Supreme Court may be next stop for Pritzker's continued fight to reimpose school mask rules, other COVID mandates
Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul each promised to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to undo lower court rulings declaring Pritzker's COVID school rules to be non-existent, null, void -
Gardiner can't end lawsuit from 45th Ward residents who say the alderman illegally blocked them on Facebook
Judge says Gardiner's Facebook page could be considered a protected public forum -
Appeals panel: No pension benefits for ex-Chicago cop Anthony Abbate, convicted in videotaped beating of female bartender
Appellate judges said the evidence shows Anthony Abbate didn't fear arrest and tampered with investigation of attack on bartender, boosting the pension board's decision to invalidate his pension -
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 -
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. -
Appeals court says Pritzker's eviction moratorium didn't apply to case in which tenant allegedly threatened landlord
An appeals panel has ruled a Chicago judge was right to grant an eviction, despite Gov. JB Pritzker's former moratorium on evictions in Illinois, because of alleged threats a tenant directed at a landlord. -
IL High Court: Cities can't exclude certain disabled firefighters from enhanced lifetime benefits by redefining 'catastrophic injury'
The Illinois Supreme Court shot down the Peoria City Council's attempt to redefine the term "catastrophic injury" to narrow the range of employees who could qualify -
Judge says Chicago residents can't sue private firm over 75-year Chicago parking meter lease
A federal judge said the plaintiffs legal injuries are apparent, but the city contract has immunity from antitrust lawsuits -
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