Tuesday, a committee of Illinois lawmakers refused to allow Gov. JB Pritzker to renew his "emergency" COVID school rules. But a key legal question concerning the limits of Pritzker's powers should be addressed by a state appeals court, said attorneys for Pritzker and those for students and parents
According to settlement documents, nearly 172,000 class members - people who used Kronos fingerprint scanning timeclocks to punch in and out of work shifts - could be in line for payments of $290-$580 each
A group of Chicago and Cook County residents have sued the city and county, saying the vaccine passport orders deprive people of their rights without coming close to achieving their stated goals of reducing the spread of the omicron COVID variant
Gov. JB Pritzker and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul asked a state appeals court to move quickly to block a Springfield judge's temporary restraining order that voided emergency rules two state agencies used to impose mask mandates and other COVID-related restrictions on schools and students statewide.
In a new filing in a court fight over whether to continue federal court oversight over Illinois state government hiring practices, reform advocates allege Gov. JB Pritzker's administration won't agree to certify under oath that they have no knowledge of continued politically motivated hiring
The judge issued a temporary restraining order on Pritzker's authority to force school districts to require students to wear masks and to exclude children suspected of being exposed to COVID from school without due process
The judge has continued to hold off her ruling on plaintiffs' request for restraining order against the mandates. But she says there is too much uncertain about these cases to allow them to proceed as class actions at this time.
The high court said workers' claims under the Illinois biometrics privacy law aren't actual workplace injuries, and employers should look elsewhere for relief from the massive potential liability under the biometrics law
UIC School of Law Professor Jason Kilborn says UIC administrators violated his constitutional and legal rights in the way they handled student complaints about an exam question that included an example redacted anti-Black slur
Evanston Insurance says its policies exclude coverage for the kinds of EtO emissions Medline is accused of discharging in 90 personal injury lawsuits in Cook County court
The Illinois Supreme Court shot down the Peoria City Council's attempt to redefine the term "catastrophic injury" to narrow the range of employees who could qualify
The lawsuit claims a Niles high school teacher and her husband launched an online and phone harassment campaign against him, torpedoing certain career opportunities, and enabled another person to call him a "defender of racism"
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Jan. 21 in a Cook County case, that the statute of limitations in a legal malpractice matter did not begin running until the client actually suffered damages as a result of the alleged malpractice, not years before when the alleged malpractice occurred.
Illinois businesses are under stress from lawmakers and lawyers, and the damage could go beyond repair, if Illinois voters don't reject a ballot measure to rewrite the state constitution to give unions broad new powers, says Tim Simeone, of the Technology and Manufacturing Assocation
A federal judge said the seeming inability of COVID vaccines to prevent people from becoming infected with COVID doesn't mean the city of Chicago's COVID vaccine passport orders are 'irrational or arbitrary'
