The City of Chicago will pay $5 million to five plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit alleging police officers performed unlawful, racially motivated stop-and-frisk searches.The city council approved ...

After calling 50 witnesses over the last two months, prosecutors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial rested their case Wednesday, followed immediately by ...

A student who alleges Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science conducted a biased investigation into a sexual assault complaint made against him does not have a case for sex discrimination ...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently rejected an insured’s “stacking” claim under an automobile policy, but allowed a bad-faith claim for an insurer’s delayed payment ...

Ruth. Gehrig. DiMaggio. Mantle. Giuliani? As Rudy Giuliani’s life gets stripped for parts to satisfy a $148 million defamation verdict, the former New York City mayor is fighting to keep one gleaming ...

A man who claims an unidentified co-worker used the N-word in reference to him while he was in a bathroom stall cannot sue his employer for discrimination, harassment and retaliation related to the ...

The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found they overstepped the president’s authority.

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 ...

After calling 50 witnesses over the last two months, prosecutors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial rested their case Wednesday, followed immediately by ...

Where district court issued a stay in direct contravention of mandate from 7th Circuit, court’s order was incompatible with mandate and therefore vacated.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted ...

Where a state representative rents a piece of property for exclusive official use as an office, that property is an authorized expenditure under section 4 of the General Assembly Compensation Act.

Where NLRB resolved unfair labor practices charges against company while appeal of temporary injunction was pending, resolution of the charges mooted the injunction and the appeal was dismissed.The ...