Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An Illinois appellate court ruled Tuesday that two insurers are not responsible for part of a $19 million settlement in underlying biometric privacy litigation based on a broad violation-of-law policy exclusion, saying the Seventh Circuit's recent analysis of nearly identical language is not "an accurate reflection of Illinois law."

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A Chicago-based federal appeals court ruled Friday that Illinois and several municipalities may enforce bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines while challenges continue in…

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American Legal Net

MAY 6, 2021

New Court Rule Sets Available : New York Supreme Court, 5 th Judicial District, Oneida County ( NYODSC ). USDC, Illinois, Northern District, Hon. Courts Removed. New York Supreme Court, New York County, C.D., New York Supreme Court, New York County, C.D., Franklin U. Valderrama ( ILFUV ).

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American Legal Net

JULY 7, 2021

New Court Rule Sets Available : California Superior Court, Shasta County, Probate Division ( CAPRSH ) Illinois Circuit Court, 8 th Circuit, Menard County ( IL08ME ) JAMS—International Arbitration Rules (6-1-21 Rules) ( IARP ) New York Supreme Court, 1 st J.D., Courts Removed. Fernando L.

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LegalReader

JULY 3, 2021

A federal appellate court recently ruled that an insurer has to defend an Illinois equestrian business from a lawsuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment when they repeatedly denied a mentally ill man held in solitary confinement access to exercise because of conduct infractions for stretches that, added together, totaled almost three years.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled in McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park LLC that the exclusivity provisions of the state's workers' compensation statute.

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Law 360

JULY 27, 2023

A Chicago-area supermarket's insurer must defend it in a proposed class action alleging it violated employees' biometric privacy rights, an Illinois federal court ruled Thursday, finding three separate exclusions in the supermarket's policies contained no "unifying thread" limiting their broadness.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Illinois Union Ins. 3d 459 (1st Dep't 2017), the New York State Appellate Division, First Department, overturned a lower court's ruling that had denied Plaintiffs. Grandview Palace Condominiums Assoc.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

An insurer doesn't owe coverage to an attorney embroiled in a business dispute with his nephew, an Illinois federal court ruled, saying a policy issued to the lawyer's firm excludes coverage for claims that involve a business enterprise other than the named insured.

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Law 360

MARCH 6, 2023

A truck driver who won a $228 million judgment against BNSF Railway in the first case under Illinois' biometric privacy law to go before a jury argued Friday that a highly anticipated Illinois Supreme Court ruling last month offers no grounds to disturb that verdict, despite the railroad's claims it bolsters its bid for a new trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2023

Here’s the Thursday morning read: A Supreme Court Ruling the Fossil-Fuel Industry Doesn’t Like (Bill McKibben, The New Yorker) Is the debt ceiling constitutional?

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LawInSport

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Take-Two simultaneously filed its own cross-motion for summary judgment, arguing that Alexander’s copyright claim was insufficient as a matter of law, and requested that the Court dismiss the claim accordingly.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

An Illinois federal judge has refused to release Grubhub from a putative class action accusing it of unlawfully blasting consumers with robocalls, rejecting the argument that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision temporarily freed companies from liability for such alleged violations.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As we have written about previously, shareholders in a corporation have two different types of claims they can assert, direct claims and derivative claims.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Illinois Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McDonald v.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Two rail unions and Amtrak asked an Illinois federal judge Thursday to hold off on considering the unions' bids for an injunction blocking the rail service's companywide vaccination policy, in the wake of a Georgia federal court ruling blocking a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

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Law 360

JULY 12, 2021

Former McDonald's workers, suing over the company's past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements, told an Illinois federal court that the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on student-athlete compensation supports their class certification bid.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 4, 2022

Note that it is an incomplete list with Illinois and possibly others omitted.). As you know by now, especially if you live in one of the over 30 states that has adopted it, ABA Model Rule 1.1 As the Illinois opinion states: Pursuant to Rules 1.6 About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A Ritz-Carlton in Texas, a Quality Inn in Illinois and a handful of other businesses urged a Seventh Circuit panel Friday to undo a slate of lower court rulings axing their claims that insurers wrongfully denied coverage for their losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing government shutdown orders.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2021

Last week, a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court in Chicago ruled against MLB and the Cubs in seeking to enforce the boilerplate language on arbitration printed on the back of baseball tickets. Now the Appellate court has agreed.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

Transgender Attorney Sheryl Ring Monday won a lawsuit in US district court with a stipulation that Illinois attorney ethics rules do not allow discrimination based on gender identity. Ring petitioned for the state of Illinois to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The group has filed similar lawsuits against, among others, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The group went to federal court in Virginia, where it argued that the bias protocol violates the First Amendment.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 4, 2022

About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2005 under Supreme Court Rule 799(c) to foster increased civility, professionalism and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in Illinois.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Model Rule 1.5(a)(1)-(8) For an example, see Illinois State Bar Association Professional Conduct Advisory Opinion No. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2005 under Supreme Court Rule 799(c) to foster increased civility, professionalism and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in Illinois.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

The decision has been described by many scholars as the most egregious example in the history of the Court of applying a judicial solution to achieve a desired political result. Dred Scott was a slave, whose owner took him to Illinois where slavery was illegal. Sound familiar? The owner later took Scott back to Missouri, a slave state.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In the first Jam case, the Supreme Court ruled that the IFC did not have absolute immunity as an international organization, but only “restrictive immunity,” meaning that plaintiffs could sue the IFC for claims involving its commercial activity carried on in the United States, or they could sue if the IFC had waived its immunity.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Commonwealth , the Supreme Court of Virginia found that the self-defense argument does not extend to cases where an individual responds to offensive language like insults. Santiago , the Illinois Court of Appeals in 2018 found that a defendant’s hostile language constituted aggression and thus invalidated his claim to self-defense.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2022

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2005 under Supreme Court Rule 799(c) to foster increased civility, professionalism, and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in Illinois.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

While the Joe Biden administration appeals a Texas court ruling that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is unlawful, the decision is blocking more than 80,000 new applications from young adults who were brought to the United States illegally as children and are seeking protection under the program, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Illinois was the first state government to take an interest in identifying solutions to wrongful conviction. McCloskey, who provided counsel for inmates, met a man who claimed he had been convicted of a crime he did not commit. After investigating the man’s claims, McCloskey was convinced the man was innocent and helped free him.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

ASEA filed counterclaims asking the court to enjoin Alaska from implementing the governor’s administrative order and from making any changes to the dues-deduction processes that were in place before the opinion was issued. Maryland and Napue v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has proposed to ramp up prosecutions for border-crossers once the Supreme Court rules on the matter in June and the government might no longer be able to use Title 42 to swiftly expel asylum-seekers. But that’s exactly what the Biden Administration is reportedly planning to do.

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HowAppealing

JULY 18, 2023

“Illinois Supreme Court upholds law eliminating cash bail, sets Sept. ” Mitch Smith of The New York Times reports that “ Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Measure Designed to End Cash Bail; A law ending cash bail was supported by Democratic legislators and Gov.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2021

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday in favor of former Speaker of the Illinois House Michael Madigan, finding that it cannot penalize him for his allegedly unethical behavior.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 27, 2021

About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2005 under Supreme Court Rule 799(c) to foster increased civility, professionalism, and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in Illinois.

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