The unions representing Amtrak workers have sued the national passenger rail carrier, asserting, as they have in similar actions vs freight carriers Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, that the rail companies don't have the power under federal law to simply force union workers to get vaccinated or face termination
Chicago City Hall has told a Cook County judge it expects to have resolved its ongoing dispute with labor unions over its COVID vaccine mandates before the Dec. 31 deadline for city workers to get the vaccine or risk getting fired.
The state high court's inability to rule on the hotly contested gun rights question means the ruling of two justices on a state appeals court will decide whether Deerfield's assault weapons ban was legally enacted
A federal judge said it appeared BNSF Railway was poised to prevail in its claims Cicero officials violated federal law in targeting it with a massive sewer rate increase for BNSF's Cicero railyard.
Amy Burnetti, a former Highland Park High School assistant principal, claims she was demoted as part of a campaign of alleged retaliation for her role in helping bring in Lake County prosecutors to investigate past alleged misdeeds by former HPHS administrators
Under the deal, donors could receive anywhere from $85 to $800 each, depending on how many people submit valid claims for a cut of the settlement fund. Lawyers could get $3.5 million.
The state had improperly denied refunds to a Rockford used car dealer who had sought credit for taxes paid on car sales that ultimately ended in repossession.
Attorney Tom Devore has represented clients in a string of lawsuits vs Gov. JB Pritzker since May 2020 over Pritzker's use of executive powers and COVID-related mandates
A new class action lawsuit vs the parent company of OnlyFans says they violated Illinois' biometrics privacy law in the way it scanned and stored face IDs of content creators
Unusual bid by the current Democratic majority in Springfield to not only strip away conscience protections from COVID vaccine mandate objectors, but declare what lawmakers meant decades earlier when the IL Conscience Act was approved, may open those changes to the law up to legal challenges.
It remains unclear how much consumers might get as a share of $111 million remaining in the settlement funds after lawyers and settlement administrators are paid.
