Recent News About Mauck & Baker
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An Illinois appeals panel has ruled a nurse, who left her Winnebago County job because she would not refer females for abortions, did not deserve a larger award in her lawsuit against the county, because judges said she could have accepted a similar county post that did not involve abortion referrals
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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 says allowing the white middle school teacher's lawsuit to proceed would violate the school district's speech rights. The teacher says the district's 'anti-racist' priorities are illegally hostile toward white students and educators
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A Chicago federal judge is asking lawyers on both sides of the lawsuit to answer key legal questions in the novel case to help him decide whether the discrimination lawsuit brought against Evanston/Skokie District 65 can continue
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Family sued over aspect of 'Quiet Time' program that featured Buddhist transcendental meditation and ran from 2015-2019 in certain Chicago Public Schools. Students were encouraged to participate, and the family said it violated their religious rights
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The lawyers said they hope the ruling and resulting payout will send a message to other Illinois governments and health care employers who might try to force workers to choose between their religious beliefs and their jobs.
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An Evanston middle school teacher has fired back vs an attempt by Evanston/Skokie District 65 to dismiss her lawsuit, which claims anti-racism programs in the district turned the schools into a racially discriminatory hostile work environment targeting white people.
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Evanston-Skokie District 65 said the teacher wasn't actually discriminated against, so she can't sue over the school's alleged race-based training programs and curriculum.
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Human Rights Commission's $220,000 award for emotional distress also upheld, could grow
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he has no intention to ever restrict church services again, asks court to dismiss a church's long-running legal challenge to his COVID-related authority.
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U.S. Supreme Court struck down similar law in California in 2018, but judge says Illinois law may survive court challenge arguing it violates the rights of anti-abortion groups and medical professionals by forcing them to refer pregnant women for abortions.
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The decision in Bostock v Clayton County could tee up future SCOTUS dates to draw new legal lines between LGBT civil rights and religious freedoms.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has denied two Chicago area churches' reequest for an order declaring Pritzker to have violated the First Amendment in closing churches and limiting the size of in-person worship services amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Saying they are threatened with "accelerating" enforcement actions against then, two Chicago area churches have petititoned the U.S. Supreme Court to block Gov. JB Pritzker's orders sharply limiting the size of in-person worship services amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two Chicago area churches asked a federal appeals court to toss out Gov. JB Pritzker's orders limiting the size of religious gatherings.
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The lawsuit asks for injunctions barring Gov. JB Pritzker from restricting worship services, because the governor's orders violate the Constitution.
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The Catholic nurse had sued after the public health department had refused her request to remain in pediatrics to avoid referring patients for abortion or distributing contraceptives.
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“If nothing else at all, the First Amendment protects religious speech and the freedom to petition,” the judge wrote, granting injunction asked by Wheaton students, petition passers
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An Illinois appeals court has upheld a Kane County judge’s judgment the religious freedom of four self-avowed Christian men from Elgin, whom Elgin police accused of gang membership, was not hindered by an injunction the city tried to apply that would have barred them from associating with gang members.
