Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker
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Recent News About Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker
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Challenges incoming to Dems' COVID vax-related changes to IL Right of Conscience Law?
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. -
Attorney accuses Pritzker of 'judge shopping' in try to move mask mandate suits to Cook County, Springfield courts
Attorney Tom Devore, who is representing many people suing Gov. JB Pritzker and school districts over student mask mandates, says the governor broke a deal and is "judge shopping" -
Pritzker asks IL Supreme Court to send all school mask lawsuits to Cook County or Sangamon court
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, on behalf of Gov. JB Pritzker, filed a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court to consolidate and transfer several different cases, including a massive class action involving hundreds of parents and students vs 145 school districts, over Pritzker's school mask orders. -
'Trying to thread a needle': Changes to IL Right of Conscience law intended to 'provide cover' for Pritzker administration, lawyer says
Downstate attorney Tom Devore, who is behind a barrage of lawsuits vs Gov. JB Pritzker and others, says proposed changes to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act are an 'absurd' attempt to legally justify past actions by Pritzker related to COVID vaccine mandates and COVID-related restrictions. -
IL Dems to strip any potential for vax mandate protection from IL Health Care Right of Conscience law
Gov. JB Pritzker and others have argued the law was never intended to protect anyone other than doctors, and certainly not people objecting to being forced to take COVID vaccines -
Chicago firefighters sue to block Lightfoot, Pritzker COVID vax mandates
A group of Chicago firefighters have filed suit in federal court, arguing COVID vaccine mandates imposed by Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are unconstitutional. -
Massive parents' class action says Pritzker, schools overstepped authority by imposing mask, COVID quarantine rules
The lawsuit targets Gov. JB Pritzker, as well as nearly 150 school districts statewide, including at least 69 districts from throughout the Chicago area. -
Pritzker court filing: Natural immunity doesn't excuse Naperville firefighters from COVID vax, testing mandates
The filing comes in response to a legal challenge brought in September by Naperville firefighters, who assert state and local COVID vaccine and testing mandates violate their rights. -
State can't end discrimination lawsuit vs Pritzker over COVID closures of programs for people with disabilities
Plaintiffs allege the Illinois Department of Public Health didn't do enough to accommodate the ability of certain people with disabilities to safely return to work amid the pandemic. -
Naperville Fire paramedics sue city, Pritzker over vax mandates
The paramedics argue the vaccination and testing mandates take no account for natural immunity, violate their rights to "bodily autonomy" and due process, and are unconstitutional. -
'Pro-Constitution, not anti-vaccine:' Geneva, St. Charles educators sue to block Pritzker vaccine mandate
A new lawsuit asks a Kane County judge to block suburban school districts in St. Charles and Geneva from enforcing Gov. JB Pritzker's vaccine mandate, saying the order tramples educators' due process rights. -
Pritzker must show corrupt hiring has stopped, can't easily restart, to end feds' oversight of IL govt jobs, reformers say
Two longtime reform advocates told a federal appeals court that Gov. JB Pritzker has not yet met the burden needed to win release from federal court orders imposing federal oversight of state hiring practices, despite Pritzker's claims to the contrary -
Judge: COVID gathering limits not likely to return, so IL GOP can't sue Pritzker over earlier shutdowns
Republicans had argued Gov. JB Pritzker's COVID-related limits on the size of political gatherings were unconstitutional, because he selectively enforced them, allowing huge Black Lives Matter protests, while shutting down GOP gatherings in 2020. -
Sterigenics says insurer wrongly used emissions claims to deny coverage for lawsuits over emissions
Medical device sterilization company Sterigenics has sued National Union Fire Insurance in Chicago federal court, saying all of its emissions were discharged legally under an Illinois state environmental permit. -
Schools buckling under Pritzker threats to yank funds, invalidate student diplomas, but challenges may be brewing
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker facing renewed challenges to his pandemic authority, as school officials and others question his power under Illinois law to override local control and use legally questionable threats against schools and students to compel compliance with public health mandates. -
Judge: Black, Latino Pritzker campaign workers fall short on racial discrimination claims
The judge said 12 Black and Latino field organizers from the JB Pritzker for Governor campaign couldn't prove that "poor supervisors," racially insensitive training sessions or "one-off" events were enough to back their hostile work environment and discrimination claims against the campaign organization. -
Landlords' federal lawsuit: CDC has no authority to ban evictions
A group of Illinois landlords and the Illinois Rental Property Owners Association have become the latest plaintiffs to argue the Centers for Disease Control overstepped its authority in prohibiting most evictions nationwide, in the name of fighting COVID-19. -
Republicans: Census data backs up claims that Democrat-drawn district maps are illegal
Illinois Republican lawmakers said their analysis of data released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week shows Democrat-drawn legislative district maps don't meet the requirements of federal law, as they earlier alleged in their lawsuit challenging the maps. -
New lawsuit: Pritzker has no authority to impose statewide school mask mandate, trampling the will of local school boards
The lawsuit notes Illinois state lawmakers are considering whether to pass new legislation that would specifically give the governor such public health powers over school districts, signalling lawmakers don't back Pritzker's assertion he already has such powers. -
Gov. Pritzker Issues Executive Order Creating New Office of Equity
Gov. Pritzker Issues Executive Order Creating New Office of Equity.