The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the appointment of Judge Sanjay T. Tailor as an AtLarge Cook County Circuit Judge. Judge Tailor was appointed to fill the At-Large vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Diane Gordon Cannon, who passed away on October 31, 2020.
Lawyers for a group of Chicago Police officers being sued for allegedly coercing confessions in a brutal 1998 double murder and kidnapping said they should get access to recorded phone calls to determine if a woman at the center of the murder case was offered anything to change her testimony before a key deposition. A judge called it a "confusing conspiracy theory."
Lawyers for Chicago police officers accused of misconduct are pushing back in court against lawsuits brought in cases in which officers assert Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx should have pushed for new trials when people who had once been convicted of murder sought exoneration over allegedly coerced confessions.
A Chicago federal judge says the plaintiffs, represented by the Edelson firm, have more work to do to show how plaintiffs were economically harmed by the alleged records sharing to aid Google's construction of a new health records system.
HSPRD is pleased to announce that Naiara F. Testai has joined our immigration practice group. Prior to joining HSPRD, Ms. Testai worked as an attorney at the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), where she focused on removal defense, family immigration, and immigration relief for crime victims and survivors of domestic violence.
Cook County’s chief judge has extended the COVID-induced shutdown of nearly all county court proceedings until mid-May, at the earliest, and this time will close some courthouses, while also requiring virtually all remaning activity to be conducted by videoconference.
The University of Chicago has asked to be dismissed from a class action lawsuit accusing Google and the university's hospital of improperly sharing patient data, as the hospital asserted the plaintiffs haven't been able to demonstrate how the hospital harmed anyone.
Clark Hill attorney Donald A. Shindler will speak at the Practicing Law Institute’s (PLI) 21st Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute program on October 23, 2019. The program, to be held at The University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center from October 23-24, 2019, will feature legal authorities on commercial real estate from across the country.
A state appeals panel has determined a woman cannot sue for a cut of Groupon’s travel business although she said she pitched the concept to the company.
CHICAGO – A state appeals panel has ruled a Cook County judge improperly ordered a plaintiff to disclose personal medical information in a brain damage lawsuit, saying the data should’ve been protected as mental health records.
Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center are facing a class action lawsuit accusing the hospital of violating federal privacy law by sharing patient health records with Google, which the internet giant allegedly used to create its own electronic health record management system.
A state appeals panel has upheld a jury verdict in favor of a former University of Chicago Police officer who sued the school after being disciplined in the wake of a UCPD detective infiltrating an on-campus student protest.
PHILADELPHIA - One of the latest projects from a legal group that influences judges relies upon a faulty analysis of case law to support its conclusion that courts have developed new ways to interpret “clickwrap,” “browsewrap” and other standardized consumer agreements, some law professors say in a pair of recent articles.
State regulators say there are enough grounds to consider action against the law license of a Chicago attorney who allegedly engaged in several acts of dishonesty, which allegedly included repeatedly delaying court proceedings with false claims that he was suffering from stomach cancer.
While stressing the ruling has nothing to do with the question of which side will ultimately win the fight over whether the Obama Presidential Center will be built in Jackson Park, a federal judge will allow that fight to continue to play out in court.
