JURIST

MAY 17, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined to enjoin the Illinois assault rifle ban on Wednesday while the case is pending appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The court denied the plaintiffs’ application for a writ of injunction pending appeal. That case is pending in the Illinois Supreme Court.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Cook County assault weapon ban challenged at Seventh Circuit; The case went before the appellate court only four days after a conservative federal judge declared Illinois’ statewide assault weapon ban unconstitutional”: Dave Byrnes of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Supreme Court of Illinois Thursday ruled that individuals have a five-year period to launch a claim under the Biometric Information Privacy Act. This ruling reverses an appellate court decision that allowed for only a one-year period on claims relating to unlawful handling of people’s data under the act.

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MAY 16, 2023

“Assault-style weapons oral arguments heard at Illinois Supreme Court”: Patrick Keck of The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois has this report. ” The post “Assault-style weapons oral arguments heard at Illinois Supreme Court” appeared first on How Appealing.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

“Illinois Supreme Court upholds assault-style weapons ban, more challenges to follow”: Patrick Keck of The Springfield State Journal-Register has this report on a 4-to-3 ruling that the Supreme Court of Illinois issued today.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Seven judges of the Supreme Court of Illinois Thursday ruled that claims against employers for statutory damages under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) were not barred by the exclusivity provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA). The appellate court ruled similarly in 2020.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request to block state and local laws barring the sale of assault-style weapons in Illinois while a group of challenges to those laws continues in the lower courts. After the U.S. They described the case as an “exceedingly simple” one.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“Jussie Smollett asks Illinois Supreme Court to overturn his conviction for lying about hate crime attack”: Matthew Hendrickson of The Chicago Sun-Times has this report.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Courts Tie for No. 1 Judicial Hellhole; Cook County, Illinois; California; New York City and South Carolina asbestos litigation ranked second through fifth”: Everett Catts of The Daily Report of Fulton County, Georgia has this article. Courts Tie for No. “‘Nuclear Verdicts’ Again Cited as Ga.,

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

“Illinois Supreme Court makes history with female majority on bench”: Jerry Nowicki of Capitol News Illinois has this report. The post “Illinois Supreme Court makes history with female majority on bench” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Wonderful Company LLC has removed to Illinois federal court a proposed false advertising class action accusing it of misleading consumers by labeling its Fiji Water as "natural artisan water" while knowing it contained microplastics.

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JULY 2, 2024

“Supreme Court Sidesteps New Gun Cases as It Closes Out Term; High court leaves Illinois ‘assault weapons’ bans in place; Court orders reconsideration of New York law, felon gun ban”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

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HowAppealing

MAY 17, 2023

“Supreme Court says Illinois may ban sale of rapid-fire assault weapons for now”: David G. Supreme Court issued today. The post “Supreme Court says Illinois may ban sale of rapid-fire assault weapons for now” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2022

The family of a former-Amazon worker Monday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon in Illinois state court. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, who was one of the workers killed when an EF-3 tornado struck the Edwardsville, Illinois Amazon facility on December 10, 2021.

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HowAppealing

MAY 9, 2022

“Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman to retire, leaving opening on the court”: Andrew Adams of The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois has this report. You can access Justice Garman’s retirement announcement at this link.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 3, 2024

The post Illinois Court’s ‘Allowed But Not Intended’ Distinction Greenlights Hurting Cyclists With Potholes appeared first on Above the Law. No clue how, but I'm sure Chance The Rapper is responsible.

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ABA Journal

JULY 19, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail. Illinois will now become the first state in the nation to eliminate…

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

“In highly political, richly funded contests for Illinois Supreme Court majority, pledges of impartiality stir skepticism”: John Keilman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Chicago Tribune.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to put on hold a new Illinois law prohibiting the possession, manufacture or sale of semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, refusing an emergency appeal from a gun rights group and others, the Associated Press reports. Court of Appeals.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon declined to temporarily block an Illinois law that bans the purchase, sale, possession, and manufacture of assault-style weapons. In a brief unsigned order , without any explanation, the justices denied a request to intervene after two lower courts rejected requests to put the law on hold.

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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. Supreme Court filings in the case via this link.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled against the Direct Auto Insurance Co. in a dispute over the reach of its uninsured motorist coverage. In a…

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Law 360

JULY 12, 2024

State and federal courts have handed down rulings so far this year that limited the reach of a federal bribery law commonly used to prosecute Illinois corruption, laid out a framework to challenge so-called mootness fees and clarified the scope of Illinois defamation and antitrust law.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of the biggest players in Illinois politics faces a criminal racketeering trial, a host of lawsuits filed under a decades-old genetic information privacy law will advance and the state's high court is expected to further weigh in on insurance coverage for litigation under the state's biometric privacy statute in some of the Illinois cases to watch (..)

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EvidenceProf Blog

AUGUST 14, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Illinois Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or.

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Law 360

JULY 19, 2023

State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases so far this year that have altered the legal landscape for biometric privacy claims in the state, opened up an area of uncertainty for False Claims Act litigants and upheld a state statute tacking 6% prejudgment interest onto personal injury and wrongful death verdicts.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Some of the year's most significant rulings handed down by Illinois' appellate courts and the Seventh Circuit could add even more cases to the state's already steady flood of biometric privacy cases and prevent businesses from litigating in federal court.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has disciplined or accepted the resignation of several lawyers and two former judges in a series of orders Sept. Among…

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Like a handful of other states, Illinois still has a Dead Man's Act. Illinois's act can be found in 735 ILCS 5/8-201, which states in pertinent part that In the trial of any action in which any party sues or.

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EvidenceProf Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Illinois and a number of other states allow for a convicted defendant to bring a freestanding claim of actual innocence. The issue that has divided the states is whether such a claim can only be made by defendants convicted after.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 19, 2024

Updated: Among the attorneys disciplined by the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday are a lawyer who led police on a 60-mile chase in an ambulance and a former Polsinelli shareholder who was temporarily barred from a courthouse.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

“Criminal Record Stops Challenge to Illinois Concealed Carry Law”: Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued Wednesday.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Agri Stats has asked a Minnesota federal court to transfer the government's case accusing the company of operating an illegal information exchange for meat processors to Illinois, where a judge has already rejected similar claims in multidistrict litigation over chicken prices.

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EvidenceProf Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Similarly, Illinois Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B) provides an exclusion to the rule against hearsay. Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(C) provides an exclusion to the rule against hearsay for a statement that "identifies a person as someone the declarant perceived earlier."

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2023

Ascension, one of the largest private health care systems in the United States, was sued in Illinois state court Thursday by a proposed class of employees of a Chicago hospital who claim it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by requiring them to scan their fingerprints for a medicine dispensing system without first securing their (..)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“Chief Justice Anne Burke stepping down from Illinois Supreme Court; The retirement comes a year before her husband, Ald. The post “Chief Justice Anne Burke stepping down from Illinois Supreme Court; The retirement comes a year before her husband, Ald.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

New rules and rights introduced in Illinois’ 2021 Pretrial Fairness Act are being “systematically” ignored and overruled across the Chicago area by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, Maryam Saleh reports for the Intercept.

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