Madison and St. Clair Counties again saw the most asbestos case filings for 2023 nationwide, and Cook County saw the highest increase in filings according to a report by KCIC, a Washington D.C.-based technology and management consulting company.
The Liberty Justice Center is suing Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul in St. Clair County Circuit Court, challenging a state law that requires all Illinois residents to file Constitutional claims against state laws, rules, or orders in Cook or Sangamon County Circuit Courts.
SPRINGFIELD - Suits connecting Zantac indigestion medicine to cancer failed in nationwide litigation at federal court in Florida, so 583 refugee plaintiffs started over by filing suits in three Illinois counties.
Madison and St. Clair County again saw the most asbestos case filings for 2022, according to an annual report by Washington D.C.-based technology and management consulting firm KCIC.
Nearly 200 independently owned pharmacies are suing OptumRx in St. Clair County, claiming they are reimbursed less for dispensing prescription drugs than retail chain pharmacies.
Democrats say the changes are needed to boost diversity on the bench. Republican critics say the changes are simply efforts by Democrats to boost their hold on power in the state's courts
Madison, St. Clair and Cook Counties together ranked No. 5 in the American Tort Reform Association’s (ATRA) annual “Judicial Hellholes” report, up from last year’s No. 8 ranking.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel raised concerns about how personal information would be protected given the increase in hacks when she rejected a request to compel Apple Inc. to provide information of Illinois residents with Apple devices and accounts in a suit alleging the Photos App collects and stores biometric identifiers through facial recognition technology.
SPRINGFIELD – Democrat State Rep. Jay Hoffman (Belleville) proposes to lop Monroe, Washington, Randolph and Perry counties off the 20th Judicial Circuit and make St. Clair County a circuit unto itself.
Attorneys for school districts argued Gov. JB Pritzker has a "constitutional obligation" to budget hundreds of millions more each year for public schools. The state says the court should stay out of a "political process" reserved for lawmakers and voters.
Apple Inc. argues that providing the personal information of Illinois residents with Apple devices and accounts for discovery purposes violates their privacy in a lawsuit alleging its photo app collects and stores biometric identifiers through facial recognition technology.
Federal judge Nancy Rosenstengel denied Apple Inc.’s motion to dismiss a class action alleging the facial recognition feature violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) but agreed that the district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over portions of the complaint.
A downstate appeals court determined a St. Louis area transit agency can’t shield itself from a lawsuit brought by a man who was beaten on a train platform’s staircase on his way to board a train.
Cook County has avoided a spot on the list of America’s worst “judicial hellholes” this year. However, the county’s civil courts still received a “dishonorable mention” in an annual report calling attention to some of the country’s most litigious local court systems.
As the number of new asbestos lawsuits declined nationally, activity in Illinois’ three hotbeds for asbestos litigation showed few signs of ebbing in 2017, even though the distribution of filing activity has shifted slightly.
Amid the state of Illinois' sustained budget woes, school districts in Chicago and elsewhere in the state have lined up to ask courts to intervene on their behalf and order the state to pay what they assert is its proper share of education funding.
But history has indicated such lawsuits have limited chances of success.
The Illinois Supreme Court has derailed a Downstate appellate ruling, saying a railroad employee, who sued his employer under a federal liability law for injuries suffered in an accident, cannot collect damages from the railroad if a third party was completely at fault.
