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Supreme Court Justices to Administer Oath To 1,111 New Attorneys in Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis, Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr. and Justice Joy V. Cunningham will administer the attorney’s oath to 1,111 new lawyers over two bar admission ceremony sessions on Thursday, November 9, in the First Judicial District. -
Administrative Director Declares Illinois Associate Judge Appointed in the Second Judicial Circuit
Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced that the Second Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Lindsey D. Waldrop as associate judge of the Second Judicial Circuit. -
Supreme Court Rules Committee To Hold Public Hearing on November 15
The Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee will hear comments on five proposals on November 15, 2023, at a public hearing beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, 222 N. LaSalle Street, 13th Floor, in Chicago. -
Administrative Director Declares Illinois Associate Judge Appointed in the Sixth Judicial Circuit
Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced today that the Sixth Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Michael B. Baggett as an associate judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit. -
CTA retirees poised to get $53M to end class action over constitutional protections for health care benefits
Lawyers who represented a group of about 6,350 retired workers from the Chicago Transit Authority are poised to collect about $26.7M in the lawsuit over whether the CTA was allowed to make retirees pay a portion of their health insurance costs -
IL Supreme Court upholds 'assault weapons' ban; Decision does not address 2nd Amend claims
In seeming 4-3 decision, court's majority says gun ban doesn't violate equal protection rights. Dissents divided, as Pritzker-backed justice says the law wrongly allows cops to keep gun rights, and conservatives say lawmakers unconstitutionally OK'd the law -
IL Supreme Court denies BIPA rehearing; Overstreet dissents, calling 'excessive' liability an 'absurd result' of the law
EAST ST. LOUIS – North Carolina software provider Center Edge settled a biometric privacy suit for an amount beyond its insurance coverage in anticipation of a Supreme Court decision that has made the position of biometric defendants even worse, and the Illinois Supreme Court denied a rehearing on the issue. -
Appeals court: IL Supreme Court must rein in lawmakers' abuse of legislative process
A Springfield appeals panel has called on Illinois' highest court to do more than just 'bluster' and follow through on threats to police state lawmakers who rely on prior leniency from the state Supreme Court to all but ignore constitutional rules governing how laws must be passed -
IL Supreme Court: Man who pleaded guilty to murder should get innocence certificate, because confession coerced
State vacated conviction in 2015; Lower courts had denied petition for certificate -
IL Supreme Court: IL Dems OK to abolish cash bail, because state constitution doesn't require it
The Democratic supermajority on the court agreed that the state constitution does not block lawmakers from redefining 'bail' to fit progressive policy goals without first amending the state constitution -
Class action: Neovia Logistics targeted by biometrics class action over employee fingerprint scans
The lawsuit brought under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act seeks potentially massive damages on behalf of workers at Neovia's Joliet warehouse -
Seventh Circuit hears arguments on controversial assault weapon, magazine ban
A panel of judges with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on Illinois’ controversial assault weapon ban Thursday, challenging the state’s justification for the ban and the plaintiffs’ reliance on “in common use.” -
IL Supreme Court grants police access to cell phone passcodes; Dissent says it violates self incrimination protections
SPRINGFIELD – Passcodes on mobile phones won’t prevent law enforcement from access to the devices’ contents, the Illinois Supreme Court decided on June 15. -
IL Supreme Court: Hawthorn Woods broke deal first, but developer can't sidestep its obligations
Illinois Supreme Court rules both sides broke the deal over work on a 62-acre piece of land the village would acquire, but both sides continued operating as if the deal was in place, so the deal still exists -
Filing: Cook County sheriff, chief judge should not be immune from lawsuit blaming woman's death on electronic monitoring shortcomings
Family members of Shanate Guy seek to defeat motion to dismiss their complaint, asserting Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans and Sheriff Tom Dart should be held responsible for allowing Guy's boyfriend to kill her, even though he was in the county's electronic monitoring program -
Using Pronouns: IL courts may need to balance person's rights to respect, 'proper pronouns' vs free speech, religious rights of others
A special Illinois Supreme Court subcommittee is exploring potential recommendations for future rules governing how to use pronouns and gendered terminology in court. No challenges against such rules have yet been brought, but future challenges may yet arise under the First Amendment or civil rights laws -
Using Pronouns: Illinois courts consider changing rules to govern how judges, attorneys must handle people's pronouns
New court rules building on the work of a special subcommittee could create more risk of repercussions for those working in Illinois' courts for referring to people using pronouns other than those they have chosen -
IL Supreme Court: Property buyers are subject to pre-existing annexation agreements, even if they only buy a portion of the land
The decision from the Illinois Supreme Court overturned a ruling from a DeKalb County judge -
Supreme Court: Lower courts should not have kept S. IL doctor from being added as defendant in medmal case
6-0 opinion notes low bar in medical malpractice actions to shift from respondent to defendant -
IL Supreme Court: No public access to Chicago ticket databases; Will allow govt to hide troves of public info, others warn
A freelance journalist had sought information on column and row headings from city vehicle citation management system, but the Illinois Supreme Court said state FOIA law doesn't require city to release it. While seemingly 'narrow,' the decision has 'vast' implications for public access to government info, transparency advocates said