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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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois denied Clearview AI’s motion to dismiss an ACLU privacy lawsuit on Friday. The company sells access to over three billion indexed images to law enforcement and commercial organizations. Clearview AI (“Clearview”) is an American facial recognition company founded in 2017.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

Long hours, unnecessary Latin injected into conversations, complaints about the rule of law being in crisis when you really just want to re-watch Chelsea Handler’s “The Feeling” — the list goes on. A lawyer in Illinois committing fraud? Louis School of Law. Dating a lawyer can be rough.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2025

The US Justice Department on Friday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, accusing Walgreens pharmacists of filling millions of prescriptions for controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or valid authorization. Attorney Morris Pasqual for the Northern District of Illinois.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Illinois and Tennessee Tuesday voted on Election Day ballot measures to add protections to workers’ rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining. These measures add to the majority of US states with right-to-work laws. In Illinois, 58.5 In Illinois, 58.5

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

But the search is still on for compatriots willing to speak out against the current administration’s consistent disregard for the rule of law. From American Bar Association : We support the right of people to advance their interests in courts of law when they have been wronged. Louis School of Law. Why the hell not?

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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. said the lawsuit raised a question of law which was barred under the statute of limitations contained in the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Black Horse Inc. Black Horse Inc.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Legislators in Illinois have passed a “first-of-its-kind” bill limiting law enforcement’s access to household data from digital devices. The measure is the latest development responding to concerns about the privacy connected with ubiquitous surveillance technology, according to Bloomberg Law News. .

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2025

.” The defendants have been accused of violating antitrust laws, including the Sherman and Clayton Acts, that prohibit anti-competitive business practices and unfair monopolies.

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Above The Law

APRIL 9, 2025

News & World Report law school rankings are here, and the legal world is definitely interested in all the ups and downs that we’re seeing when it comes to changes in rank. First and foremost, lawyers and law students are in an absolute tizzy over the state of the T14. Lawyer/Judge Assessment: 12.5%

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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. There are two separate laws at the center of Wednesday’s order. In February, U.S.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Law specialization has become increasingly common — almost a necessity. . Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice.

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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. Bevis and Law Weapons Inc. Earlier this year, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the ban into law. That case is pending in the Illinois Supreme Court.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2021

Illinois Gov. Despite enactment of the Illinois legislation, it’s still legal in the state—and everywhere else in the U.S.—for Younger people also might not consider the totality of the actions because their brains aren’t fully developed. for police to deceive suspects 18 or older during interrogations.

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HowAppealing

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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JURIST

MAY 11, 2023

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law Wednesday that will provide disability benefits to first responders who contracted COVID-19 before vaccines were available. Specifically, the law provides benefits for those who contracted COVID-19 between March 9, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

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LegalReader

JULY 19, 2021

Illinois and Oregon are the first states to ban law enforcement from deceiving minors during interrogation, but police can lie to the rest of us everywhere else in the U.S.

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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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JURIST

MAY 10, 2022

The ACLU alleged “that Clearview repeatedly violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a law adopted in 2008 to ensure that Illinois residents would not have their biometric identifiers – including faceprints – captured and used without their knowledge and permission.”

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

A companion “report card” ranking all 50 states according to how well they measure up in nine different areas of reentry and reintegration gives Illinois the highest marks and places Alaska at the bottom. Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report. and then assigning an overall ranking for each state.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2023

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is demanding sheriffs enforce the state’s new law banning assault weapons or risk losing their jobs, David C.L. Before Pritzker made the demand, about five dozen sheriffs in the state said they would not enforce the law in written messages. Bauer reports for Police 1.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

An Illinois law that took effect in January bars police from lying to minors during interrogations, but it didn’t help a wrongfully accused juvenile,…

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Law 360

MARCH 8, 2023

An Illinois federal judge Wednesday refused to dismiss or send to arbitration a proposed class action accusing an Albertsons subsidiary of collecting and storing employees' voiceprints without securing the informed permission required under Illinois' biometric privacy law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Like most at the court these days, though unlike his predecessor, Dow received both his bachelor’s and law degrees from the Ivy league, having attended Yale and Harvard respectively. Share Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Judge Robert Dow Jr.

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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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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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HowAppealing

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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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The plaintiffs in this case sought to certify a class of more than 250 purchasers of smartphones in the United States that contain Qualcomm chips, alleging that Qualcomm violated the Cartwright Act , California’s antitrust law. California’s Cartwright Act has no such requirement.

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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2025

I was critical of the actions of the John Marshall Law School at the University of Illinois (Chicago) as inimical to both free speech and academic freedom. ’ According to a FOIA request from the University of Illinois system, UIC Law has already burned through $1.2 million in the case.

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Attorney at Work

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.). requires attorneys to keep abreast of changes in law and its relation to technology. 718 Illustration ©iStockPhoto.com.

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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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ABA Journal

AUGUST 30, 2021

After entering an order sua sponte to suspend a parent’s visitation rights until she received the COVID-19 vaccine, an Illinois family law judge revisited…

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

.” More than a year later, the lawsuits continue to gain traction and have recently merged into one major multi-district action in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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HowAppealing

MAY 8, 2023

“Naperville, state of Illinois urge U.S. And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “ Illinois bucks Supreme Court, defends ban on assault weapons sales as lawful.” The post “Naperville, state of Illinois urge U.S. ” You can access the U.S. ” You can access the U.S.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 20, 2024

An Illinois federal judge ruled Friday that credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard must comply with Illinois' landmark law restricting certain credit card fees; however, she also held that national banks and federal savings associations aren't subject to the law, at least for now.

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