JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois denied Clearview AI’s motion to dismiss an ACLU privacy lawsuit on Friday. Plaintiffs, the ACLU joined by four other organizations, allege that Clearview has violated the Illinois Biometric Information and Privacy Act (BIPA). Nor does BIPA prohibit all use of faceprints.

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JURIST

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Supreme Court of Illinois Saturday put a hold on the controversial Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act , finding that the pretrial release provisions under the act violated the Illinois Constitution. Governor of Illinois J.B. ” The SAFE-T Act is controversial because it abolishes cash bail.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 19, 2024

Updated: Among the attorneys disciplined by the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday are a lawyer who led police on a 60-mile chase in an ambulance and a former Polsinelli shareholder who was temporarily barred from a courthouse.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On this episode of LawNext: An interview recorded live with Erika Harold , executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism , an organization charged with working to enhance civility and professionalism and to eliminate bias within the legal profession.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Attorneys described in lurid detail the allegedly horrific conditions at the Northern Reception and Classification Center outside Joliet, Illinois.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some of the most significant rulings in Illinois this year could lead to disparities in how clients recover damages from defense and plaintiffs attorneys in legal malpractice cases, while also offering guidance on how best to address improper statements made by opposing counsel at trial.

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Law 360

JULY 14, 2022

Justices on the Illinois Supreme Court could offer clarity in the coming months on two key interpretations of the state's landmark biometric privacy law. Here, Law360 breaks down those and other cases Illinois attorneys should be watching in the second half of the year.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Attorneys general in Illinois, Colorado and California have sought court-ordered overhauls of local police departments, increasingly filling the role the federal government has played for decades of holding accountable police departments that are deemed to be behaving badly, reports the Jackson Progress-Argus.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report. A companion “report card” ranking all 50 states according to how well they measure up in nine different areas of reentry and reintegration gives Illinois the highest marks and places Alaska at the bottom. Pardon Attorney and current Executive Director of the CCRC.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 10, 2023

attorney for the Northern District of Illinois is reportedly conducting an initial investigation into the discovery of a small number of classified documents…

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Law 360

MAY 30, 2024

An Illinois judge tossed a lawsuit brought by a former in-house attorney for the Chicago Park District accusing former Mayor Lori Lightfoot of unleashing a profane tirade laced with crude, insulting and defamatory comments during a Zoom call.

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The Crime Report

MAY 1, 2023

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office in Illinois is set to roll out a new system on Monday that would help the authorities speed up prosecution of criminal cases by more comprehensively storing and tracking digital evidence, Joe Mahr and Megan Crepeau report for the Chicago Tribune.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Transgender lawyer Sheryl Ring has filed a lawsuit seeking a declaration that attorney ethics rules in Illinois do not allow discrimination based on gender identity.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who is representing the chief judge and other senior facility staff sued in federal court, denied the allegations of poor care leveled against the Franklin County facility.

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Chugh LLP

MAY 2, 2022

New Illinois law imposes stringent restrictions on employee non-compete and non-solicitation agreements signed after January 1, 2022. It is important to work closely with an attorney to ensure that your contracts comply with the new law. By: Krishnakala Busani. Non-compete agreements. Non-solicitation agreements. 75,000 per year.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Over half of the 102 State’s Attorneys in Illinois have filed lawsuits against the SAFE-T Act, which among other things, eliminates cash bail except in the instance that someone is deemed either an immediate threat or a flight risk and that they say is both unconstitutional and a threat to public safety, reports Nina Burns for WQAD.

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Law 360

MAY 14, 2024

After an Illinois federal jury determined that Amazon owes $525 million for infringing three of Kove IO's patents relating to cloud data storage technology, the Chicago software company asked a judge Tuesday to add $180 million in interest, while also arguing Amazon owes attorney fees for its surprise trial tactics.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

Illinois gun right organizations are suing the state to let people under 21 carry a firearm, reports Courthouse News Service. Illinois has some of the strictest gun-possession age restrictions in the nation. They are arguing that the current rules violate the Second Amendment rights of the young.

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MARCH 22, 2022

A commercial litigation attorney with the firm Meyer Capel P.C. Harold was a 2014 Republican primary candidate for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District and the 2018 Republican nominee for Illinois attorney general. She was Miss Illinois 2002 and Miss America 2003. Champaign, Ill.,

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2021

Illinois’ top court is being asked to decide whether the Firearm Owner’s Identification cards, popularly called FOID cards, are a necessary safeguard or a violation of the U.S. Constitution, reports the Chicago Sun Times. But in his ruling Tuesday, White County Judge T.

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Law 360

APRIL 17, 2024

A recent Illinois appellate court decision, National Fire Insurance v. Visual Pak, may have altered the future of insurance litigation under the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act by diametrically opposing a prominent Seventh Circuit ruling that found insurance coverage for violations of the act, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.

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LegalReader

MAY 17, 2022

Illinois has some specific exemptions that you should take into account when filing for bankruptcy.

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ABA Journal

MAY 4, 2021

Hackers have posted documents that are said to be stolen from the Illinois attorney general’s office, including documents labeled “judgments entered,” “shakedown cases” and “state…

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LegalReader

AUGUST 29, 2022

Illinois Kroger store remains closed until asbestos can be properly removed.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

After notable appellate victories in biometric privacy cases, Illinois plaintiffs have seized upon a previously little-used law protecting workers' genetic privacy, leaving defense attorneys wondering if history will repeat itself and open companies to potentially explosive liability.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

” And Nolan Stout of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Biden announces 5 judicial, 2 US attorney nominees; The nominations are for positions in D.C., Illinois, Arizona, Iowa and the Court of Appeals.”

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LegalReader

JUNE 7, 2022

Per Illinois law, motorists involved in accidents that caused a personal injury or death must remain at the scene of an accident.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

However, his conviction was vacated Tuesday by the Lake County State Attorney’s Office due to several issues with the original conviction, including pseudoscientific forensic pathology and problems with claims from a detective’s testimony.

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Law 360

MARCH 27, 2023

Two Illinois attorneys are being sued for defamation by Chicago lawyer and lobbyist Brian Hynes, who is claiming they leaked their qui tam lawsuit to the press and falsely accused his company of defrauding the state of Illinois out of $50 million.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 30, 2023

A retired judge in Cook County, Illinois, has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to remove her from the attorney rolls after an ethics complaint accused…

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 1, 2023

A quick-thinking prosecutor is being credited with helping save a woman who was overdosing in the Will County, Illinois, courthouse outside Chicago. Assistant State’s Attorney…

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2023

These citations were disclosed at a press conference held by US Attorney for the Southern Di strict of New York Damian Williams and Assistant Secretary of Labor Douglas Parker. The US Attorney announced that his office is investigating whether injuries were intentionally hidden from OSHA and investigative authorities.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 3, 2021

Gail Curley, an attorney in the U.S. She received her law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and two master’s degrees from military graduate schools. The post Court names military attorney as second-ever female marshal appeared first on SCOTUSblog. This post was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

There is a two year time period to file a suit after a truck accident in Illinois, referred to as the statute of limitations, although there are some exceptions to this timeline.

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Law 360

APRIL 26, 2024

An attorney for a blank-check company that took ATI Physical Therapy Inc. public told Delaware's Court of Chancery on Thursday it has agreed to settle two proposed stockholder class actions in conjunction with pending federal class and derivative suits in the Northern District of Illinois.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 While the settlement ends the present lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a new lawsuit against Google last month for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent. The post Google reaches $391.5M

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JANUARY 29, 2022

The student government at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding that former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions be barred from campus. The “Safe Campus” resolution suggests that allowing the former Attorney General to speak on campus is somehow unsafe for students.

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