JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed four new bills into law on Monday that in effect end immigration detention by expanding protections for immigrants and refugees. In an attempt to establish “Illinois as the most welcoming state in the nation,” he also issued an executive order creating the Welcoming Illinois Office.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Bruce sentenced Philip Buyno to five years in prison in the Central District of Illinois on Monday after he attempted to commit arson against a future reproductive healthcare center. The US attorney for the Central District of Illinois condemned the attempt to prevent women from having access to reproductive healthcare.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Illinois and Tennessee Tuesday voted on Election Day ballot measures to add protections to workers’ rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In Illinois, 58.5 percent of voters said yes to adding Section 25, titled “Workers’ Rights,” to Article I of the Illinois Constitution.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined to enjoin the Illinois assault rifle ban on Wednesday while the case is pending appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Earlier this year, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the ban into law. That case is pending in the Illinois Supreme Court. Bevis and Law Weapons Inc.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2022

The family of a former-Amazon worker Monday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon in Illinois state court. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, who was one of the workers killed when an EF-3 tornado struck the Edwardsville, Illinois Amazon facility on December 10, 2021.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“Jussie Smollett asks Illinois Supreme Court to overturn his conviction for lying about hate crime attack”: Matthew Hendrickson of The Chicago Sun-Times has this report. The post “Jussie Smollett asks Illinois Supreme Court to overturn his conviction for lying about hate crime attack” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Wonderful Company LLC has removed to Illinois federal court a proposed false advertising class action accusing it of misleading consumers by labeling its Fiji Water as "natural artisan water" while knowing it contained microplastics.

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday announced former Illinois State Senator Thomas E. The post Former Illinois state senator sentenced to one year in prison for embezzlement appeared first on JURIST - News. Cullerton was sentenced to one year in federal prison for embezzlement.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 3, 2024

The post Illinois Court’s ‘Allowed But Not Intended’ Distinction Greenlights Hurting Cyclists With Potholes appeared first on Above the Law. No clue how, but I'm sure Chance The Rapper is responsible.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Supreme Court of Illinois Thursday ruled that individuals have a five-year period to launch a claim under the Biometric Information Privacy Act. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Illinois considered the appellate court’s decision. The appellate court’s decision meant that Tim’s claim was filed too late.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

1 Judicial Hellhole; Cook County, Illinois; California; New York City and South Carolina asbestos litigation ranked second through fifth”: Everett Catts of The Daily Report of Fulton County, Georgia has this article. “‘Nuclear Verdicts’ Again Cited as Ga., Courts Tie for No. The post “‘Nuclear Verdicts’ Again Cited as Ga.,

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HowAppealing

MAY 16, 2023

“Assault-style weapons oral arguments heard at Illinois Supreme Court”: Patrick Keck of The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois has this report. ” The post “Assault-style weapons oral arguments heard at Illinois Supreme Court” appeared first on How Appealing.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

“Illinois Supreme Court upholds assault-style weapons ban, more challenges to follow”: Patrick Keck of The Springfield State Journal-Register has this report on a 4-to-3 ruling that the Supreme Court of Illinois issued today.

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Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2024

An Illinois federal judge granted initial approval Wednesday to a $55M settlement by NorthShore University HealthSystem, resolving a 16-year-old antitrust class action over alleged price hikes the health system instituted following a merger in 2000 with Highland Park Hospital.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of the biggest players in Illinois politics faces a criminal racketeering trial, a host of lawsuits filed under a decades-old genetic information privacy law will advance and the state's high court is expected to further weigh in on insurance coverage for litigation under the state's biometric privacy statute in some of the Illinois cases to watch (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request to block state and local laws barring the sale of assault-style weapons in Illinois while a group of challenges to those laws continues in the lower courts. The post Court rejects request to temporarily block Illinois assault-weapon bans appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon declined to temporarily block an Illinois law that bans the purchase, sale, possession, and manufacture of assault-style weapons. The law at the center of the case is known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act (as well as a city ordinance passed by the Chicago suburb of Naperville).

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2022

“Illinois Supreme Court makes history with female majority on bench”: Jerry Nowicki of Capitol News Illinois has this report. The post “Illinois Supreme Court makes history with female majority on bench” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Seven judges of the Supreme Court of Illinois Thursday ruled that claims against employers for statutory damages under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) were not barred by the exclusivity provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA). The appellate court ruled similarly in 2020.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2022

Illinois judges Friday found that the police evidence used to convict four men in two cases was not reliable and ruled that the men be released from prison. The post Illinois judges release four men convicted of murder after finding evidence used to convict unreliable appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Law 360

MARCH 8, 2023

An Illinois federal judge Wednesday refused to dismiss or send to arbitration a proposed class action accusing an Albertsons subsidiary of collecting and storing employees' voiceprints without securing the informed permission required under Illinois' biometric privacy law.

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HowAppealing

MAY 17, 2023

“Supreme Court says Illinois may ban sale of rapid-fire assault weapons for now”: David G. The post “Supreme Court says Illinois may ban sale of rapid-fire assault weapons for now” appeared first on How Appealing. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report on an order that the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2023

Illinois Governor J.B. The Illinois Sheriffs’ Association has opposed the law since it was introduced. Pritzker is demanding sheriffs enforce the state’s new law banning assault weapons or risk losing their jobs, David C.L. Bauer reports for Police 1.

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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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Law 360

JULY 19, 2023

State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases so far this year that have altered the legal landscape for biometric privacy claims in the state, opened up an area of uncertainty for False Claims Act litigants and upheld a state statute tacking 6% prejudgment interest onto personal injury and wrongful death verdicts.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has disciplined or accepted the resignation of several lawyers and two former judges in a series of orders Sept. Among…

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ABA Journal

JULY 19, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail. Illinois will now become the first state in the nation to eliminate…

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to put on hold a new Illinois law prohibiting the possession, manufacture or sale of semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, refusing an emergency appeal from a gun rights group and others, the Associated Press reports. Court of Appeals.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Some of the year's most significant rulings handed down by Illinois' appellate courts and the Seventh Circuit could add even more cases to the state's already steady flood of biometric privacy cases and prevent businesses from litigating in federal court. Here, Law360 looks at some of 2021's biggest decisions in Illinois courts.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled against the Direct Auto Insurance Co. in a dispute over the reach of its uninsured motorist coverage. In a…

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Agri Stats has asked a Minnesota federal court to transfer the government's case accusing the company of operating an illegal information exchange for meat processors to Illinois, where a judge has already rejected similar claims in multidistrict litigation over chicken prices.

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EvidenceProf Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Similar to its federal counterpart, Illinois Rule of Evidence 804(b)(2) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay In a prosecution for homicide, [for] a statement made by a declarant while believing that the declarant’s death was imminent, concerning the.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro, Illinois were sent to hospitals in the area, John O’Connor reports for NBC Chicago. The incident is being investigated by the Illinois State Police’s hazardous materials team. On Wednesday, 18 staff members and an unknown count of inmates at the John A.

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MAY 9, 2022

“Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman to retire, leaving opening on the court”: Andrew Adams of The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois has this report. You can access Justice Garman’s retirement announcement at this link.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a guard at the Pontiac Correction Center in Illinois experienced a sexual harassment incident with an incarcerated man, his supervisor, Lt. Corley was fired for the incident, while three other high-ranking officers were fired and then reinstated. .

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

“In highly political, richly funded contests for Illinois Supreme Court majority, pledges of impartiality stir skepticism”: John Keilman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Chicago Tribune.

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