The federal lawsuit, filed by a middle school teacher, claims District 65's anti-racism message paints 'whiteness' as wrong, immoral, and violates the Constitution and federal civil rights law.
Appellate panel rules district judge wrong to order release of security footage showing a man pushing another passenger onto tracks at Blue Line Washington station in 2017.
Former Trump 2016 campaign advisor Carter Page can't use federal courts in Chicago, or anywhere, to sue the law firm of Perkins Coie for pushing Russian collusion story.
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled defendants in personal injury lawsuits can't use a settlement by another party to shift some of the remaining liability onto still another party. Dissenting justices called the ruling unfair.
Class action lawsuits accused Six Flags of including too many card digits on customer receipts. A settlement would allow Six Flags to pay $450,000 to customers, but $1.7 million to the lawyers who filed the lawsuits, to end the court fight.
A federal judge says she won't let Geico ask a federal appeals court to review her refusal to dismiss a class action accusing the insurer of "deceptive" statements over how much customers could save through the "Geico Giveback" COVID relief program.
Susan Wagener has written an analysis of how a recent Illinois appellate court decision reversed a longstanding precedent on jury instructions in medical malpractice trials.
A Chicago federal judge doused a lawsuit brought by a group of homeowners in Channahon, on the Will-Grundy county line, over claims the village government should pay for damage to their homes from repeated floods.
Brothers, who own severa, McDonald's franchise restaurants, said McDonald's steers Black restaurant owners into low-income, high-cost communities, not desired by white restaurant owners.
Three new class action lawsuits accuse four "people search" sites, operated by PeopleConnect, of illegally using Illinoisans names and personal information to sell search subscriptions.
Six Flags Great America members and pass holders who visited the park from 2013-2018 could be in line for cash payments of $60-$200. Lawyers could get $12 million.
The origin and purpose of new legislation to redistrict Lake County's court system remains shrouded in questions, as the county's chief judge says it wasn't needed to solve any problems.
An Illinois appeals panel has ruled Hanover Park's police pension board cannot include officers' holiday pay when calculating pension benefits, because only "fixed" pay — and holiday pay is not "fixed" — may be used to figure pensions.
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