Law 360

OCTOBER 2, 2024

An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss bribery charges against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling limiting the reach of a bribery statute that once criminalized gratuities, while also refusing to sever his case from his co-defendant's.

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Law 360

JANUARY 4, 2024

Counsel for former Exelon Utilities CEO Anne Pramaggiore told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that regardless of how the nation's top court interprets the federal bribery statute later this year, the bribery convictions of his client and three former Commonwealth Edison lobbyists won't survive.

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Law 360

MAY 25, 2023

An Illinois state appeals court upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action brought by a Chicago bakery claiming a Farmers unit violated the state's eavesdropping statute when it recorded a phone call between a claim representative and an attorney for the bakery.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled in McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park LLC that the exclusivity provisions of the state's workers' compensation statute.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2023

States such as California, New York, Illinois and the territory of the District of Columbia joined in the lawsuit against Meta. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul commented on the lawsuit, “Our children are in crisis, and we need to act.” The case is currently filed before a federal court in California.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

RICO statute; Yegiazaryan’s alleged RICO crimes were committed to prevent Smagin from enforcing a British arbitration award in the United States. Background To understand the claims before the court, it is helpful to review the byzantine factual and procedural history of this litigation. In April 2020, the U.S. ” The U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , a case about the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether federal courts can review the rates TVA charges its clients for power. In Holbrook v.

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2024

A liquor business consultant has told a New York state court that Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and the rapper's general counsel violated federal and New Jersey wiretap statutes, after the court dismissed an earlier counterclaim lodged under the Illinois Eavesdropping Act.

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Law 360

APRIL 30, 2021

Nursing home operator Symphony Bronzeville Park urged the Illinois Supreme Court on Friday to reverse a state appellate court's finding that Illinois' workers' compensation law doesn't preempt claims for statutory damages under its biometric privacy statute, saying a former employee is seeking a new, judicial exception for her alleged workplace injury. (..)

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression. This means that the court must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant meant to harm the individual before being provoked or engaging in a mutually combated altercation.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is the first day the court has welcomed the general public into the courtroom since early 2020. Besides the Supreme Court “ hard pass ” holders who could attend in person last year, we are now joined by some “day pass” reporters, including some who cover the court regularly but for one reason or another do not have hard passes.

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Mondaq

JULY 8, 2022

Unique among state laws, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA") creates a private right of action for "any person aggrieved" by a violation of the statute and provides for statutory damages of $1,000 for.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Monday in LeDure v. The case involves the Locomotive Inspection Act , a federal statute that requires railroads to regularly inspect and implement safety measures for their locomotives. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Scott Ballenger arguing for Union Pacific Railroad.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The court also found no personal jurisdiction over Siemens AG. As such, the district court awarded summary judgment of no infringement based upon the license. ” Given this failure, the appellate court affirmed the dismissal based on the settlement agreement’s protections was warranted. 22, 2023).

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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. The Second District, Division One, Court of Appeal’s unpublished opinion found “persuasive” the Second District, Division Two, decision in People v. Orozco (2019) 32 Cal.App.5th

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

In January, a group of New York state legislators introduced a biometrics regulation bill that contains a private right of action similar to the already enacted Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). First, a California District Court approved Facebook’s $650,000,000 biometrics settlement. In re TikTok Inc.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

There are no laws or statutes criminalizing pedophilia. Recently a series of news stories were published in Joliet, Illinois, by Joliet’s local Patch homepage. These are the facts about the term pedophilia. It is a medical term, not a legal one. Not everyone who shoplifts has depression, and not all with depression shoplift.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a decision this week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims by Flo & Eddie (of the 1960s band the Turtles) that there was a common law public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in the state of Florida (the opinion is available here ). Could California decide differently?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. The use of the headdress could be treated by a court as opinion since many denounce such images as cultural appropriation. Notably, that article was not on an opinion page, but the court found that the expression of the journalists opinion was obvious from the tenor of the column.

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Patently O

JANUARY 18, 2024

The court also affirmed the Board’s finding that the proposed amended claims would have been obvious over the prior art. In its decision, the court distinguished Facebook. The court reviewed the PTAB’s motivation to combine finding for substantial evidence and found there was adequate evidentiary support. 3d 1321 (Fed.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

University of Illinois Foundation (1971), the Supreme Court held that a judgment of invalidity in a suit against one infringer accrues to the benefit of any other accused infringer unless the patent owner shows that he did not have a fair opportunity procedurally, substantively and evidentially to pursue his patent claim the first time.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 25, 2017

Thus far, New York , Florida , Georgia and Illinois have found there to be no right of compensation under state laws (though some of these cases are on appeal). Even if adopted, this statute would not address all issues raised by the state litigation over the pre-1972 recordings. The state applies only to digital services.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

States such as Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, California, Florida Georgia , Texas, Arizona, and Oregon have emerged as major data center hubs and are now faced with the challenge of upgrading their grids to bring more electricity to them. In this regard, the Supreme Court of Ohio has held that R.C. On April 8, 2024, FERC approved a $5.1

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 29, 2025

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. The court is now holding a second relisted petition raising a similar issue, Elliott v. This week it disposed of four.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday recommended that the Senate pass the Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act to empower victims of child sex abuse by removing the statute of limitations for federal civil child sex abuse claims, giving survivors unlimited time to file the claims.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2023

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a comprehensive report Tuesday naming over 450 child sex abusers within Catholic Church leadership in the state. The report names and provides information for 451 Church leaders within Illinois that account for 1,997 counts of abuse.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday issued its decision in LeDure v. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit was “affirmed by an equally divided Court.” As is customary in this situation, the Supreme Court revealed only that the vote was evenly split — not the identities of the justices on each side.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. With just a few weeks left before the Supreme Court’s summer recess, and with only the October and November argument sittings filled, the court has switched into high gear. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2024

Share In a list of orders released on Monday morning , the Supreme Court added one new case to its argument docket for the 2024-25 term. The statute defines “crime of violence” as one that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Since our last installment , the Supreme Court has continued slowly chipping away at the still-sizable number of lingering relists from the end-of-summer “long conference.” Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. The court did, however, deny review in one case that had been relisted three times – King v. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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