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ABC to give $15M to Trump’s presidential library to settle suit
ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect ...
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Pritzker endorses hemp bill that would tighten regulations
More than five years after Illinois began issuing permits for legal production of industrial hemp, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday he now favors legislation to bring the industry under tighter ...
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Civil procedure — Rule 11 sanctions
Where district court declined to hold hearing prior to imposing Rule 11 sanctions, hearing was not necessary because attorney intended to challenge only one of the two independent grounds for ...
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Torts — respondent in discovery
Where plaintiff seeks to name a party as respondent in discovery, they are not required to show that the party could be found responsible for the tortious injury.
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Justices deny certiorari in Hawaii 2nd Amendment case
In February, the Hawaii Supreme Court disagreed with the U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudene on the Second Amendment and what rights it granted. The Hawaii Supreme Court held there is no state ...
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Judge won’t acquit former AT&T boss after trial ended in hung jury
A federal judge on Thursday declined to acquit former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza after his September trial on ...
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SCOTUS allows class action to proceed against microchip company Nvidia
The Supreme Court is allowing a class-action lawsuit that accuses Nvidia of misleading investors about its past dependence on ...
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DOJ, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing
The U.S. Justice Department and the city of Louisville have reached an agreement to reform the city’s police force after an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor and ...
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President Biden holds biggest single-day act of clemency
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans ...
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Fourth Amendment — probable cause
Where absence of certain evidence on low-quality body camera video was not enough to call into question credibility of officer’s testimony that defendant was involved in a fight prior to arrest.
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FOIA — records
Where plaintiff made a FOIA request, the subject agency is only required to produce extant records, not make new ones.
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Plaintiff in wage suit plausibly alleges he was employee, judge holds
A judge declined to throw out a lawsuit accusing a company that provides clients with cleaning services of violating Illinois and federal law by failing to pay a worker overtime wages. In a written ...