The jury that will determine the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is nearly complete after three slow ...
A LaGrange-based assisted living facility failed to convince a state appellate panel that it can compel arbitration in a personal injury lawsuit it faces from a resident who fractured her pelvis when ...
Where employee of Amtrak was a railroad employee and therefore FAA did not control her suit against employer.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal from a decision by Judge Rebecca ...
Where defendant cannot show prejudice, she cannot assert ineffective assistance of counsel as a basis for reversal.
The term has begun at the Supreme Court, and in five arguments, the court began its work for the year, including hearing the ghost guns case. While always hard to predict outcomes, the overall ...
A Cook County jury awarded $4.5 million to a restaurant server who alleged he was harassed and defamed online by his former employer.
A trial judge correctly denied a temporary restraining order (TRO) to a video gaming operator seeking to bar the city of Waukegan from revoking its license in an ongoing suit over the city’s push tax, ...
The city of Chicago will pay $1.75 million to a man who suffered permanent injuries after his car was hit by a vehicle involved in a police chase.
Relatives of some of the 346 people who died in two crashes involving Boeing 737 Max planes are in court Friday, where their lawyers are asking a federal judge to throw out a plea agreement that the ...
The Supreme Court appeared likely Wednesday to give Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip at least another day in court in his long quest to throw out his murder conviction and death sentence.
A state appellate panel declined to revive a negligence lawsuit against a school board over a head injury a student sustained from running into an unpadded brick wall in his high school tumbling class ...
A former Chicago police officer who was fired over claims that she released a detainee without proper authorization and made false statements about the incident should not be reinstated, a state ...