The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. It was required reading by our detective and communications personnel,” a police chief in Illinois told Harpster. Thousands of emails, police reports and other documents led to a web of thousands more in new states.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In doing so, he writes, the state court applied that law “essentially verbatim” in its opinion, without referring to federal law. Glossip counters that there is a “high hurdle” to overcome the presumption that the Supreme Court can review a state court ruling on an issue of federal law.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2022

A commercial litigation attorney with the firm Meyer Capel P.C. 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. Champaign, Ill.,

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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.” Illinois 47 Ill. particularly those with ravenous monkeys.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

They contended that it would seem to follow from Apprendi that a jury must find any facts necessary to support a (nonzero) restitution order, and they suggested that the court should take up a lower court ruling to the contrary. City of Carbondale, Illinois , 24-57 Issue: Whether this Court should overrule Hill v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The litigation over Trumps executive order is likely to focus on what it means for someone to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The 14th Amendment was intended to overrule one of the Supreme Courts most notorious decisions, its 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday declined to immediately resolve an attempt by 14 states to revive litigation over a controversial Trump-era immigration rule after the Biden administration declined to defend it in court. This post was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and Sanders supporter. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. In order to prevail, a litigant must show either actual knowledge of its falsity or a reckless disregard of the truth.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed. The court of appeals refused, instead expediting argument. By a split vote, the 6th Circuit then reversed the lower courts’ rulings , concluding that the states were likely to win their appeals. The court thus allowed the laws go into effect.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. and non-U.S. 17cv1215, 17cv1873, 17cv1911 (S.D.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But a few weeks later, the Biden administration – which had pledged to unwind the Trump policy and did not wish to defend its legality – told the court that both it and the challengers had agreed to dismiss the case , as well as two others presenting the same question. They attempted to intervene in the litigation in the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It hadn’t simply abandoned the government’s appeal in the Supreme Court, he emphasized, but it had also simultaneously dismissed four other appeals while leaving in place a ruling by an Illinois district court that invalidated the rule.

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