Nolo's Blog
AUGUST 27, 2020
But not in Illinois, thanks to. The post Attacking Store Workers for Enforcing Rules on Wearing Face Masks: Now a Felony in Illinois appeared first on Nolo. Of course, it’s already a crime in most states to do anything like this (or to attack anyone else, for that matter). Read More Read More.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 25, 2022
The answer matters here because Bradley LeDure, a former Union Pacific engineer, suffered debilitating injuries after falling on a locomotive while it was parked in a railyard in Salem, Illinois, about 75 miles west of St. The post Justices to decide what it means to “use” a locomotive appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
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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.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 27, 2022
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises , along with Capitol News Illinois. On a chilly November morning in 2019, Lutrice Williams, a patient at a state-run mental health center in southern Illinois, was surprised by a visit from a sheriff’s deputy.
The Crime Report
MAY 20, 2021
Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Other states have minimal standards.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Criminal law We are now in the home stretch. Beginning in March 2013, Michael Johnson, a state prisoner in Illinois convicted of murder, was held in solitary confinement for over three years. A divided panel of the 6th Circuit affirmed, holding that application of nonmutual offensive collateral estopposel was permissible.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.” Johnson & Johnson earned Judge Polster’s ire for defending itself in court rather than accepting liability. In Chicago v. Beretta U.S.A.
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