It’s been a month since the jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial last heard the ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Shannon P. O’Malley narrowly lost his bid for reelection to the bench, securing 57.9% of the vote, mere margins away from the 60% vote requirement to keep his seat.

A health care provider did not violate the constitutional and statutory rights of a nurse when it fired her for refusing to either get a COVID-19 vaccine or submit to weekly testing for the virus, a ...

The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica ...

Chicago-based firms Romanucci & Blandin and Washington Law Group were part of a trial team that obtained a $98.6 million verdict in Texas after a jury ruled in favor of the family of a man fatally ...

Where defendant has been acquitted of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon with prior felony stipulated, issue preclusion bars prosecution for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

If there is any single songwriter who has provided the soundtrack for our lives, it must be Neil Diamond, the self-described “Jewish Elvis” who gave us a long string of hits including “America,” ...

Chicago businessman Juan Ochoa had heard little more than crickets in the six months since then-Illinois House Speaker ...

The Illinois Supreme Court published nearly a dozen opinions Thursday, including a ruling on a challenge to the interpretation of the Illinois Citizen Participation Act in a defamation suit against ...

Thursday to vacate Jussie Smollett’s conviction for staging and falsely reporting a homophobic hate crime.The high court’s decision reversed a Cook County jury verdict and a judge’s sentence of ...

Where district court did not err in determining that prisoner could not proceed under Sec. 2241 habeas petition when he was authorized to proceed under the alternative method of Sec. 2255.

A man’s decision to change the beneficiaries of his life insurance policy is enforceable even though the insurer did not receive written notice of his intention until after his death, a federal judge ...