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Police allowed to keep drivers' personal info away from personal injury lawyers seeking clients, IL Supreme Court rules
Mancini Law Group sought unredacted crash reports through FOIA request -
Federal judge: GOP judge candidate can't sue IL Elections Board over alleged stolen 2020 judicial election
Request for dismissal from Yarbrough, Judge Fallon stayed until state lawsuit is resolved -
Appeals panel: Sheriff Dart's layoffs after 2017 soda tax repeal didn't break labor law
Appeals panel says no evidence county failed to engage in good faith negotiations -
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. -
IL Supreme Court: Jury instructions don't trigger new medmal trial for family of woman who died at Mercy Hospital
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled a jury in a Cook County medical malpractice case, did not need proposed instructions on plaintiff's loss of chance, saying the instruction the judge did give on proximate cause was sufficient. -
2021 ERISA Litigation: What You Need to Know on December 2, 2021
2021 ERISA Litigation: What You Need to Know on December 2, 2021. -
IL High Court says juror's tie to Advocate Medical no reason for removal from medical negligence trial
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled it was proper for a Cook County judge to keep a juror seated in a malpractice suit trial against Advocate Medical Group, saying even though the juror had a business tie to Advocate, the link was too distant to influence the juror. -
Judge says Chicago city workers have no constitutional right to spurn vaccinations
A federal judge has explained he recently refused to block the governor and Chicago mayor from forcing COVID-19 vaccinations upon city workers, saying the workers' evidence against the value of vaccines was "slim" and the city's evidence in favor was "substantial." -
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. -
Locke Lord's Jennifer Kenedy, Michael Renetzky and Steve Whitmer Chosen as Crain's Chicago Business 2021 Notable Gen X Leaders in Law Honorees
Locke Lord's Jennifer Kenedy, Michael Renetzky and Steve Whitmer Chosen as Crain's Chicago Business 2021 Notable Gen X Leaders in Law Honorees. -
IL High Court says California domestic battery conviction doesn't strip Illinois man of right to own guns in IL
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled state police were wrong to pull an Illinois man's FOID card over a 20-year-old domestic battery rap. -
IL Supreme Court restores $8 million punitive damages against man accused by ex-girlfriend of sexual assault
The court said the man's 'egregiously reprehensible conduct' means the $8 million the man was ordered to pay to the woman is 'not unconstitutionally excessive' -
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 -
Constitutional challenge may thwart new law banning out of state and anonymous contributions to judicial candidates
A new Illinois law prohibiting judicial candidates from accepting out-of-state and so-called "dark money" anonymous contributions is being called unconstitutional by a First Amendment advocacy group. -
Wagner Spoke to Nursing Students About Legal Considerations of the Profession
Wagner Spoke to Nursing Students About Legal Considerations of the Profession. -
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 -
Appeals panel scraps $8M penalties, cleanup order vs landowner, company accused of illegal dumping in Ford Heights
Split appeals panel said judge was wrong to order total cleanup of Ford Heights property, work that the landowners estimated would cost $100 million or more. -
SCOTUS refuses school workers' claims unions unconstitutionally took dues after they tried to leave
Two Chicago teachers and a Moline custodian claimed their unions ignored the Supreme Court and the Constitution by limiting their ability to leave the union only to one "escape period" each year. -
Attorney accuses Pritzker of 'judge shopping' in try to move mask mandate suits to Cook County, Springfield courts
Attorney Tom Devore, who is representing many people suing Gov. JB Pritzker and school districts over student mask mandates, says the governor broke a deal and is "judge shopping" -
Vending machine operator Compass Group to pay $6.8M to settle fingerprint scan class action
Lawyers who brought the consequential class action under the Illinois biometrics law will seek at least $2.2M from the deal.