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IL high court denies appeal from Geneva restaurant owner challenging Pritzker's shutdown power; 'Stay tuned,' restaurant's lawyer says
A Springfield judge has rejected Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's attempt to kill off the lawsuit, which now demands Pritzker prove he didn't abuse his COVID emergency power by singling out restaurants with indoor dining bans -
Proposed new IL constitutional amendment a 'monstrous giveaway' to public worker unions
Illinois voters will decide in 2022 whether to enshrine 'unimagined' union power as a right, similar to that granted public worker pensions, in the state constitution, perhaps forever, says Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon -
IL Supreme Court to decide if Cook County largely exempt from transportation spending lockbox amendment
A state appeals court and a Cook County judge have denied attempts by road contractors to use the Safe Roads Amendment to force Cook County to spend $250 million in transportation-related taxes on actual transportation projects, not operations. -
IL Dems move to redraw state Supreme Court district lines for first time in decades, with eye on preserving their partisan majority
Illinois Democrats say the changes are needed to better balance the districts by population, but the redistricting move comes just months after a longtime Democratic Supreme Court justice lost his bid for retention in a district now considered solidly Republican. -
IL high court says landscape workers can't use prevailing wage law to sue Chicago Park District contractor over pay
Decision reverses appellate ruling, upholds circuit court's dismissal of complaint -
Illinois is under 'extreme' threat of drawing another Madigan election map
Illinois is listed as one of the states under ‘extreme’ danger of partisan gerrymandering of its state legislative and congressional redistricting maps. Gov. J.B. Pritzker can stop that threat. -
'Disappointing' that IL Supreme Court missed 'teaching moment' on constitutional limits on state borrowing
Wirepoints president Mark Glennon says the Illinois Supreme Court should have engaged on the merits of the claims in a taxpayer lawsuit vs the state over borrowing, particularly since the court did not dismiss the lawsuit as "frivolous," as state officials have characterized the suit. -
IL Supreme Court says West Bend Insurance had to defend LA Tan franchise in BIPA class action
Ruling affirms earlier opinions that 'publication' includes private disclosure of fingerprint data, holds implications for current and future biometrics class actions vs employers, other businesses in Illinois. -
IL high court says zoning law dispute doesn't stop Dept of Ag from deciding how close marijuana growers can be to neighborhoods
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled the Illinois Department of Agriculture was within its rights to determine marijuana cultivation centers may be sited within 2,500 feet of residential areas, unless the areas are zoned "exclusively" residential, which could allow other state agencies to interpret state laws as they see fit. -
Big spending at Happy’s service station violated state law, court rules; Did Mautino do so knowingly, election board must decide
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino violated campaign law as a legislator, Illinois Supreme Court Justices ruled on May 20. -
IL high court avoids answering whether state constitutionally borrowed $14B; Says challenger waited too long to sue
The Illinois Supreme Court blocked John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, from suing the state over whether state lawmakers unconstitutionally borrowed billions in 2003 and 2017. -
'A constitutional amendment would do nothing…' IL Sen. President Harmon’s pension errors and falsehoods
Look to Arizona, Rhode Island, to see real world examples of public pension reform solutions beyond saying, "Just going to have to pay it," says reform advocate Wirepoints -
IL Supreme Court mulls school districts' request for order potentially forcing billions more state dollars into public schools
Attorneys for school districts argued Gov. JB Pritzker has a "constitutional obligation" to budget hundreds of millions more each year for public schools. The state says the court should stay out of a "political process" reserved for lawmakers and voters. -
ICJL report warns Illinois Supreme Court redistricting plans are designed to preserve Dem majority
SPRINGFIELD – Legislators have begun drawing maps to change boundaries of Supreme Court districts, according to the Illinois Civil Justice League. -
Feds seeking plea deal with ex-Cook County debt collector, indicted for alleged bribes paid to former Cook Circuit Clerk Brown
In a recent filing, prosecutors indicated they had initiated plea deal talks with lawers for Penn Credit and its CEO Donald Donagher -
IL appeals panel: Loop hotel developers sued ex-attorneys too late for role in alleged corrupt rezoning
An appeals court has tossed out the window a lawsuit by the would-be developers of a Loop hotel, who alleged their attorneys improperly advised another client how to thwart the project, saying the developers waited too long to lodge their malpractice action. -
CSX to pay $5.25M to settle truck driver's class action over fingerprint scans; Lawyers to get nearly $2M
A Cook County judge could sign off on the deal on May 13, approving payouts of "several hundred dollars" to more than 3,000 CSX truck drivers and others who accessed secure CSX railyards, but did not provide written authorization for fingerprint scans. -
HEPLERBROOM: DuChateau Named Editor in Chief of Legal Journal
James DuChateau has been named Editor in Chief of IDC Quarterly, the journal of the Illinois Defense Counsel (IDC). -
Nurse staffing firm Heartland to pay $5.4M to end biometrics class action over worker fingerprint scans
Settlement pool could include more than 10,000 employees, who could get $320 each -
Judge predicts IL Supreme Court won't gut BIPA suits vs employers, refuses pause in class action vs Pret a Manger
A Chicago federal judge said he believed Illinois' high court will reject attempts by employers to limit the onslaught of class actions brought under Illinois' biometric privacy law.