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Reporting on litigation, decisions and trends in Chicago's civil courtrooms

 Chicago, IL
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Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cook County has filed its primary brief in defense of its ban on so-called "assault weapons" before the Supreme Court, as the county's state's attorney argues the

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Cook County tells SCOTUS state and local governments can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns, no matter how many of those guns are owned by law-abiding citizens. And those who don't like it, can leave legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cook County has filed its primary brief in defense of its ban on so-called "assault weapons" before the Supreme Court, as the county's state's attorney argues the

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Judge orders Smith Firm to reveal who is pulling strings in Paraquat cases legalnewsline.com/madison-st…

Judge orders Smith Firm to reveal who is pulling strings in Paraquat cases

EAST ST. LOUIS — One of the law firms behind an avalanche of lawsuits attempting to force the makers of commercial weed killer Paraquat to pay for allegedly not warning

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Jury: Criminal fleeing Chicago cops to blame for woman’s death in crash, not city legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Jury: Criminal fleeing Chicago cops to blame for woman’s death in crash, not city

CHICAGO — A Cook County jury won’t force the city of Chicago pay millions of dollars to the family of a woman who was killed in a crash caused by

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Feds OK to join discrimination lawsuit vs Evanston racial reparations program legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Feds OK to join discrimination lawsuit vs Evanston racial reparations program

CHICAGO — The Justice Department will be allowed to press ahead with its effort to add the weight of the federal government to a court fight challenging the city of

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Family can’t sue Latin School over boy’s bully-driven suicide: Appeals court legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Family can’t sue Latin School over boy’s bully-driven suicide: Appeals court

CHICAGO — A state appeals panel will not allow the parents of a boy who died by suicide — which the parents attribute to bullying at Chicago’s prestigious Latin School

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Loevy lawyers getting $104M from city under deal to settle 16 murder conviction suits, even though prosecutors aren't convinced all the men freed from their sentences are innocent. And a city lawyer hints there could be more on the way legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Loevy lawyers getting $104M from city under deal to settle 16 murder conviction suits

CHICAGO — Lawyers from the firm of Loevy + Loevy, who have built much of their current business practice on suing Chicago for alleged police misconduct and wrongful convictions, are

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‘Reeks of pretext:’ Evanston can’t ditch lawsuit from white fired cop records supervisor legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

‘Reeks of pretext:’ Evanston can’t ditch lawsuit from white fired cop records supervisor

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — Saying the city's story "reeks" of an attempt to cover up potentially unlawful racial discrimination, a federal judge says a white woman who was fired from her

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Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years legalnewsline.com/madison-st…

Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years

SPRINGFIELD — A Wood River lawyer who has clashed with the state of Illinois on several occasions in challenges to constitutionally questionable state laws has had his law license suspended

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Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years legalnewsline.com/madison-st…

Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years

SPRINGFIELD — A Wood River lawyer who has clashed with the state of Illinois on several occasions in challenges to constitutionally questionable state laws has had his law license suspended

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Muslim doctors latest to challenge IL assisted suicide law legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Muslim doctors latest to challenge IL assisted suicide law

CHICAGO — A group of Muslim doctors have joined their names to the growing list of medical professionals, health care organizations and others seeking to strike down Illinois' state law

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McDonald’s turns back black franchisees’ discrimination claims legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

McDonald’s turns back black franchisees’ discrimination claims

CHICAGO — A federal judge won't allow a group of four dozen black McDonald's franchisees to pull forward with most of their racial discrimination claims against the world's largest fast

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Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras

CHICAGO — As debate intensifies across the U.S. over the ability of police and other government agencies to use license plate-reading cameras, a federal appeals court in Chicago later this

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Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras

CHICAGO — As debate intensifies across the U.S. over the ability of police and other government agencies to use license plate-reading cameras, a federal appeals court in Chicago later this

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Appeals court lets pediatrics group exit bid to block FL A/G’s suit over kid gender transitions legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Appeals court lets pediatrics group exit bid to block FL A/G’s suit over kid gender transitions

CHICAGO — A federal appeals court will allow the American Academy of Pediatrics to slip away from their doomed bid to use Chicago's Democrat-dominated federal courts to block Florida's Republican

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CTU wins court fight over formerly missing financial audit reports legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

CTU wins court fight over formerly missing financial audit reports

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge will allow the politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union end a lawsuit accusing them of violating their members' rights by refusing to provide access to

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Big new "half-baked" Illinois taxes and "fees" on social media and digital ads, rammed through in a hurry by Gov. Pritzker and IL Dems in the spring, violate the First Amendment and federal law, tech companies say legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

IL ‘social media tax’ unconstitutional, illegal, lawsuit says

CHICAGO — Illinois will need to defend in court a controversial and constitutionally questionable new law hurriedly rammed through Springfield by Democrats, imposing steep per user "fees" on internet...

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IL ‘social media tax’ unconstitutional, illegal, lawsuit says legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

IL ‘social media tax’ unconstitutional, illegal, lawsuit says

CHICAGO — Illinois will need to defend in court a controversial and constitutionally questionable new law hurriedly rammed through Springfield by Democrats, imposing steep per user "fees" on internet...

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IL DCFS officials can’t slip suit over alleged unlawful juvenile detention legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

IL DCFS officials can’t slip suit over alleged unlawful juvenile detention

CHICAGO — A federal appeals panel opened a new pathway for the Cook County Public Guardian’s Office to pursue litigation accusing Illinois DCFS officials of allegedly unjustly holding minors at

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Judge: Disabled can’t show IL assisted suicide law will create ‘duty to die’ legalnewsline.com/cook-count…

Judge: Disabled can’t show IL assisted suicide law will create ‘duty to die’

CHICAGO — People with disabilities and disability rights advocates can't block Illinois' new medical assisted suicide law from taking effect, after a federal judge said they can't show the law

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