HowAppealing

MAY 8, 2023

“Naperville, state of Illinois urge U.S. Supreme Court not to block ban on assault-style weapons; Gun shop owner Robert Bevis has asked the Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings upholding the ban”: Andy Grimm of The Chicago Sun-Times has this report. ” You can access the U.S.

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JUNE 4, 2022

QUESTION: Our law firm would like to reduce our paper and physical storage use and costs by “going to the cloud” with our data. Note that it is an incomplete list with Illinois and possibly others omitted.). As you know by now, especially if you live in one of the over 30 states that has adopted it, ABA Model Rule 1.1

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Model Rule 1.5(a)(1)-(8) Laws, rules, regulations, and opinions vary by jurisdiction.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Be sure to examine your own jurisdiction’s rules, ethics opinions, and case law, and look for any templates that may help you draft your notice. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Lead with your ethical obligations and a professional attitude and start your next chapter on the right page.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An Illinois appellate court ruled Tuesday that two insurers are not responsible for part of a $19 million settlement in underlying biometric privacy litigation based on a broad violation-of-law policy exclusion, saying the Seventh Circuit's recent analysis of nearly identical language is not "an accurate reflection of Illinois law."

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LawInSport

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Take-Two simultaneously filed its own cross-motion for summary judgment, arguing that Alexander’s copyright claim was insufficient as a matter of law, and requested that the Court dismiss the claim accordingly. The position under English law. Author Andrew King Carlton Daniel Simon Watts-Morgan.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment when they repeatedly denied a mentally ill man held in solitary confinement access to exercise because of conduct infractions for stretches that, added together, totaled almost three years.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2022

Harold was a 2014 Republican primary candidate for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District and the 2018 Republican nominee for Illinois attorney general. She was Miss Illinois 2002 and Miss America 2003. Since 2015, she has served on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Equality. Champaign, Ill.,

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Law 360

MARCH 6, 2023

A truck driver who won a $228 million judgment against BNSF Railway in the first case under Illinois' biometric privacy law to go before a jury argued Friday that a highly anticipated Illinois Supreme Court ruling last month offers no grounds to disturb that verdict, despite the railroad's claims it bolsters its bid for a new trial.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2022

In considering alternatives, however, the lawyer should be aware of any law that requires the lawyer to advocate the least restrictive action on behalf of the client.”. Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacities: A Handbook for Lawyers, 2nd Edition, by the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and the American Psychological Association.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The recent Delaware Superior Court ruling in Harman International v. Illinois National Insurance offers a critical framework for interpreting bump-up exclusions in management liability insurance policies, and follows the case law trend of narrow interpretation of such exclusions, says Simone Haugen at Tressler.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Illinois Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McDonald v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation heard oral argument in a case under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act concerning choice-of-law rules. City of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago police’s destroy-or-sell policy. In Conyers v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Prosecutors had argued that the claim was spurious on the grounds that the teenager’s decision to bring an AR-15 to the protest made him an “initial aggressor” under Wisconsin law. jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 23, 2024

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has handed down a major ruling in Worth v. The opinion by Judge Duane Benton upholds a lower court in striking down a Minnesota law limiting gun permits for persons 21 years old. It is well-reasoned and, in my view, right on the law. Jacobson

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Writing for the six-justice majority, Chief Justice John Roberts cautioned that universities could not circumvent the court’s decision “through application essays or other means,” emphasizing that “‘what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.’” The district court “reluctan[tly]” sent the case back to state court, and the U.S.

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The Fashion Law

MAY 5, 2021

federal court to force its much smaller rival to limit the sales of its Australian-made boots to Australia and New Zealand in order to not interfere with the sales of its boots and its trademark-protected name. Against that background, Deckers asked a U.S. The appeal comes on the heels of a September 2018 order from the U.S.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a section of the newly enacted SAFE-T Act that eliminated cash bail in the state was legal under the state’s constitution. The Illinois Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling overturned the lower court ruling, meaning the law will go into effect immediately.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It was a light Supreme Court conference yesterday, with the court ruling on only 64 matters. The court agreed to hear People v. But there were some notable actions, including: Statements made to undercover police agent. Perkins (1990) 496 U.S. 292) is OK after the defendant has said he doesn’t want to be questioned.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Sarah Palin (R) against the New York Times, a lawsuit that could have far reaching implications for defamation law in the United States. Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and Sanders supporter. We have previously discussed the lawsuit of former Alaska Gov. Steve Scalise and other members of Congress by James T.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

Transgender Attorney Sheryl Ring Monday won a lawsuit in US district court with a stipulation that Illinois attorney ethics rules do not allow discrimination based on gender identity. Ring petitioned for the state of Illinois to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

But the Supreme Court agreed to put Glossips execution on hold and to take up his case. In a 29-page opinion, the justices on Tuesday reversed the state courts ruling and sent Glossips case back for a new trial. Under the Supreme Courts 1959 ruling in Napue v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2023

District Judge Stephen McGlynn has granted a preliminary injunction of Illinois’ ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The Supreme Court is hitting its stride in sorting through the relists. At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

The decision has been described by many scholars as the most egregious example in the history of the Court of applying a judicial solution to achieve a desired political result. Dred Scott was a slave, whose owner took him to Illinois where slavery was illegal. Ferguson , that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In 2015, the Supreme Court put Glossip’s execution (as well as those of two other men) on hold while it considered their challenge to the state’s lethal injection protocol. In doing so, he writes, the state court applied that law “essentially verbatim” in its opinion, without referring to federal law.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mary’s University School of Law. Illinois was the first state government to take an interest in identifying solutions to wrongful conviction. McCloskey, who provided counsel for inmates, met a man who claimed he had been convicted of a crime he did not commit. Centurion Ministries continues to operate today.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. The system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict. I was wrong.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

Just like jaywalking across the street, prosecutions for walking across the border also disproportionately impact people of color and result in lethal confrontations with law enforcement. . The problems with the absence of permanent and lawful paths to entry have been decades in the making.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

Democratic members and advocacy groups have pushed to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. They have sought to negate state election laws and impose their own federal election standards on states. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. Yet, they still fell short. And then — poof!

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

highlights an interesting procedural quirk in Illinois law that may require Supreme Court intervention to resolve an important state law question about the scope of litigation privilege. Atturo believes the scope of litigation privilege should be referred to the Illionois Supreme Court. Toyo Tire Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It held that a Black person whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as enslaved persons was not entitled to any protection from the federal courts because he was not a U.S. Four decades later, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment guarantees U.S. citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote that “although the article drips with disapproval of Wilkow’s (and the judges’) conduct, an author’s opinion about business ethics isn’t defamatory under Illinois law.” The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” particularly those with ravenous monkeys.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 5, 2023

She was previously criticized for allegedly spreading disinformation and advocating censorship , Jankowicz previously argued that Congress should create new laws to block mockery of women online by reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and including “provisions against online gender-based harassment.” Hamsher 74 Cal.App.4th

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

In a brief, unsigned order, the justices said the states must first make their arguments in the lower courts, but they left open the possibility that the states could eventually return to the Supreme Court on this issue. The so-called “public charge” rule is one with which the justices have become very familiar recently.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

But in response to legal challenges, Congress amended the law in 2022 to give the FTC the power to make changes to the authoritys rules. A group of states brought suit in a federal district court in Kentucky, challenging the constitutionality of the HISA and its funding mechanism. The en banc 4th Circuit upheld the law.

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