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Smile, Clarence Thomas: Lightfoot’s Chicago wants courts to restrict bodily autonomy rights by extending Dobbs decision
Despite excoriating the SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v Wade, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the city attorneys are seeking to use that decision to defeat a challenge to the city's Covid vaccine mandate by arguing the Dobbs decision goes further than SCOTUS intended, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints -
IL high court: Concerns over 'absurd,' 'annihalitive' payouts no reason to limit damage claims under IL biometrics law
Divided IL Supreme Court has ruled trial lawyers can demand employers pay potentially billions of dollars in damages covering every fingerprint scan, not just first one. Businesses who don't like it need to ask lawmakers to change the law, court says -
IL Supreme Court's latest biometrics privacy law ruling will spur more lawsuits against IL employers
The high court said lawsuits under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act can reach back over five years of allegedly improper fingerprint or facial scans, cementing the law's role as a generator of financial windfalls for trial lawyers, critic says -
Untrustworthy Prosecutors
State's Attorneys must disclose witnesses’ credibility problems—but what happens when they themselves aren’t telling the truth? -
IL Supreme Court: Biometrics class actions can include claims over five years, not just one
The decision turned back another effort by businesses to limit the reach and impact of the state's stringent biometrics privacy law, which has been used to target thousands of businesses with massive class actions, primarily over employee fingerprint scans when punching time clocks -
White County judge raises concerns about gun ban legislative procedure during hearing on TRO request, calls it 'egregious'
CARMI – Circuit judges can’t enforce constitutional requirements for passing legislation, Governor Pritzker’s lawyer told White County Circuit Judge Scott Webb at a Jan. 25 hearing for a temporary restraining order on a gun law Pritzker signed on Jan. 10. -
IL Supreme Court: Man can sue his employer for injuries, even though he initially did not report lawsuit in bankruptcy
The Illinois high court said there was no proof the man intentionally tried to pull a scam on bankruptcy officials by not initially telling them he was suing his employer and other companies for injuries he claimed he suffered on the job -
IL Supreme Court: Chicago didn't violate state law by charging fees to owners of impounded vehicles
Plaintiffs strike out on long battle to prove city ordinance exceeds bounds of the Illinois Vehicle Code -
Pomerantz Elevates Omar Jafri to Partner
Pomerantz is proud to announce that attorney Omar Jafri has been promoted to Partner. -
Is IL's new gun ban law constitutional? Tough legal challenges loom, will turn on key 2nd Amend questions
Lawsuits will turn on the question of whether Illinois' lawmakers and Gov. Pritzker have violated the Constitution by banning a long list of firearms and accessories. The cases may go all the way to the Supreme Court -
IL Supreme Court to hear arguments on SAFE-T Act bail elimination in March
The state high court will decide later this spring if state lawmakers illegally ignored the Illinois state constitution when they passed the SAFE-T Act -
IL Supreme Court puts bail elimination on hold while appeal continues of ruling declaring law unconstitutional
The order maintains the current criminal cash bail system beyond Jan. 1 to avoid potential chaos that could have been created by a Kankakee judge's ruling and Democrats' refusal to put the law on hold while they appeal that ruling to the state Supreme Court -
New Democratic justices will shape Supreme Court, but how far left they will take the court, state law remains to be seen
Employers, taxpayers should not count on friendly rulings from the new state Supreme Court, warns the director of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce -
Cook County places No. 5 among worst U.S. 'Judicial Hellholes'
A new report from the American Tort Reform Association says Cook County courts' welcoming attitude for "nuclear verdicts" and "no-injury" biometrics class actions give the county a dubious distinction among America's most welcoming of jurisdictions for lawsuit abuse -
Supreme Court says condo sellers can't sue over association's 'excessive' documentation fees
Unanimous opinion overturns appeals court's ruling which held the fees were illegal under Illinois' condo law -
Appeals court: DuPage judge wrong to step into fight over mail-in ballots while votes were being counted
A state appeals panel has sided with DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek in a court fight with State Rep. Deanne Mazzochi, saying courts have no ability to order election officials to follow the law when counting votes until after election officials say they are done counting ballots. -
IL Supreme Court: Cook County can't block data on whether Stroger Hospital is telling police about gunshot victims
A 6-1 majority of the Illinois Supreme Court agreed that Cook County can't use HIPPA to withhold data concerning when gunshot victims are treated, and when - or if - those treatments are reported to police, as required by law -
IL Supreme Court: Landlord's insurance company not obligated to defend tenants over oven fire damage
Pekin residents were sued by an appliance repairman, who had been sued by the landlord's insurance company, after the tenants allegedly lit a gas stove amid repair process, setting fire to their rental home -
Affirmative Action: The Possible K-12 Impacts of the Supreme Court Cases Involving Harvard and UNC on November 28, 2022
Join Husch Blackwell and the Council of the Great City Schools for a discussion on Supreme Court cases Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. -
DuPage County Clerk appeals again to escape judge's order requiring her to follow law when counting mail-in ballots
DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek has appealed to the Illinois Third District Appellate Court to overturn a DuPage County judge's temporary restraining order in a dispute with a Republican state legislator over how she is verifying mail-in ballots are legal