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Sterigenics plaintiffs ask IL Supreme Court to step in to upend Cook judge's rulings
The plaintiffs call Cook County judge's decisions 'absurd and antithetical to ... prompt justice,' and denial of their clients' rights to prompt trials
Appeals panel says Indiana pediatrician fired for refusing Covid vax can't force reinstatement
A federal appeals judge said further proceedings will give the doctor to chance to demand hospital administration explain why they granted religious exemptions to four nurses, but not to the doctor
Stare Decisis: Settled Law, Until It Isn’t on June 28, 2022
Stare Decisis: Settled Law, Until It Isn’t on June 28, 2022.
IL Supreme Court: McLean Co. man can keep up suit over nerve damage blamed on hip replacement
Complaint alleges general negligence against surgeon, technicians
Attorney General Raoul Announces Over $230 Million Settlement With Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
Attorney General Raoul Announces Over $230 Million Settlement With Pharmaceutical Manufacturer.
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks Attorneys Join Holland & Knight
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks Attorneys Join Holland & Knight.
Judge won't yet give appeals court chance to weigh in on class action over BNSF rail yard entry fingerprint scans
Judge Matthew Kennelly had refused to grant summary judgment to BNSF in the BIPA class action brought by a truck driver in 2019
Yarbrough: Time for feds oversight of Cook Clerk's office to end; Court monitors focusing on details to keep getting paid
Yarbrough says compliance administrators appointed by the court to ensure she obeys federal court decrees are trying to find reasons to keep those decrees in place to ensure they continue to get paid
Appeals panel: Family can sue Abbott over birth defects from drug, despite seeming contradictory claims vs doctors
Couple now suing Abbott Laboratories already won $18.5M jury verdict against doctors who prescribed the anticonvulsant Depakote
HeplerBroom to Host International Conference
HeplerBroom to Host International Conference.
Class action: T-Mobile, Sprint owe money to customers of AT&T, Verizon because merger raised cell phone costs
The lawsuit asserted the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint violated antitrust laws and led only to higher prices for all telecom customers amid a less competitive marketplace.
IL Dems seek to defend vote by mail law; Dem voters will be 'disenfranchised' if votes not counted 2 weeks after Election Day
A group of Republicans have sued the state, saying a state law requiring mail-in votes to be counted up to 14 days after Election Day, conflicts with federal law.
Greenberg Traurig Honored at Euromoney ‘Women in Business Law Awards Americas’ 2022
Greenberg Traurig Honored at Euromoney ‘Women in Business Law Awards Americas’ 2022.
Judicial Inquiry Board moves ahead with complaints against three judges, including Cook County judges Raines, Ghouse
One Cook County judge accused of improperly besmirching attorneys, while another pleaded guilty to DUI
Sterigenics plaintiffs to ask IL Supreme Court to step into dispute over how looming trial will proceed
Hundreds of lawsuits are pending, claiming EtO emissions from Sterigenics caused cancer in Willowbrook. The first trial is scheduled to begin next month
Lawsuit: Cook County sheriff, chief judge liable for woman's death at hand of man on electronic monitoring
The lawsuit accuses Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans of placing accused violent criminal Dominiko Johnson on electronic home monitoring, but allowing him to travel to the home of girlfriend Shanate Guy, who he allegedly shot to death
4th Annual Chicago Diversity, Equity & Inclusion CLE Event on June 23, 2022
4th Annual Chicago Diversity, Equity & Inclusion CLE Event on June 23, 2022.
IL Supreme Court again passes on whether FOID Act is constitutional, drawing sharp rebuke in dissent
Majority opinion holds White County judge was wrong to reconsider an order it directed in 2020. Dissent says the court is trying to avoid ruling on whether Illinois' firearms owner registration program is unconstitutional
Seventh Circuit upholds judgment for J&J in pelvic mesh case over contradictions in doc’s deposition, affidavits
CHICAGO – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle properly struck an affidavit of Effingham urologist Pernankel Nayak and granted judgment to Johnson & Johnson in a pelvic mesh suit, Seventh Circuit appellate judges ruled on June 15.
Morgan Lewis Partners Ami Wynne, Pulina Whitaker Named in Iel Women Leaders Survey
Morgan Lewis Partners Ami Wynne, Pulina Whitaker Named in Iel Women Leaders Survey.