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

JUNE 30, 2023

An Illinois federal judge on Friday vacated a $228 million fine ordered from the bench against BNSF Railway in the first case under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act to go before a jury, ordering a new trial where jurors will decide damages under the closely watched statute.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Over half of the 102 State’s Attorneys in Illinois have filed lawsuits against the SAFE-T Act, which among other things, eliminates cash bail except in the instance that someone is deemed either an immediate threat or a flight risk and that they say is both unconstitutional and a threat to public safety, reports Nina Burns for WQAD.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A negligence suit that Acer accused Amundsen Davis LLC of bungling when it sued an insurance broker in the wrong state didn't turn into the legal malpractice victory the computer company was looking for after an Illinois state appeals court panel rejected Acer's statute of limitations arguments last week.

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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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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2021

Johnson & Johnson must face an Illinois woman's lawsuit claiming she received a faulty pelvic mesh device that caused her continuing pain and medical issues, the Seventh Circuit ruled Tuesday, finding that there are still questions as to when the statute of limitations started running.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 18, 2021

On January 1, 2022, Illinois' amendment to the Illinois Freedom to Work Act (IFWA) will take effect. The amended statute will render unenforceable non-compete agreements with employees earning less than $75,000 annually.

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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.” 33 US states filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc.,

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2024

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.” The court will meet for another private conference on Thursday, June 6; orders from that conference are expected on Monday, June 10, at 9:30 a.m.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday granted Danone Waters of America's request to dismiss a putative class action accusing the Evian-maker of violating Illinois and California state consumer fraud statutes by labeling its spring water as "natural" even though the product contains microplastics, finding the claims are preempted by federal law.

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

We previously discussed the treatment of Professor Jason Kilborn, who was put on indefinite administrative leave after using a censured version of the n-word in an exam question at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). COUNT II Violation of University of Illinois Statutes. University-of-Illinois-Chicago-—-Complaint1.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, the constitutions of six states do have provisions with explicit environmental rights – Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. (The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.).

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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

He sued the agency on behalf of a class of individual consumers, arguing that TVA charged them more for electricity so that it could subsidize its commercial rates in violation of the agency’s founding statute. In Holbrook v. Kelley-Lomax v. Holbrook v.

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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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Mondaq

AUGUST 17, 2022

On August 16, a federal judge for the Northern District of Illinois granted WFM's motion to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit that alleged WFM violated consumer protection statutes by selling its private label.

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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

APRIL 29, 2022

LeDure asked the justices to interpret a key phrase of the Locomotive Inspection Act , a federal statute that requires railroads to regularly inspect and implement safety measures for their locomotives. The act applies only to locomotives that are in “use” (or “allowed to be used”) on the railroad’s line.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A Chicago federal jury's finding that BNSF Railway violated Illinois' landmark Biometric Information Privacy Act in the first such case to go to trial underscores the urgency for employers and companies to comply with the statute, and will likely lead to appellate battles over a company's liability for third-party vendors.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Radio stations in California and television stations in Illinois and Wisconsin should be putting the finishing touches on their license renewal applications, ahead of the August 2 filing deadline. Then, by September 27 , broadcasters must file in ETRS Form Three with detailed post-test data.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

The case involves the Locomotive Inspection Act , a federal statute that requires railroads to regularly inspect and implement safety measures for their locomotives. Bradley LeDure, a former Union Pacific engineer, fell on a locomotive while it was parked in a railyard in Salem, Illinois. Union Pacific Railroad Company.

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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. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reversed, holding that Smagin’s case could go forward because he alleged a domestic injury within the meaning of the statute. ” The U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

District Judge Robert Dow, who serves in the Northern District of Illinois, will succeed Minear beginning Dec. Justice Clarence Thomas, asking whether any bodies of water were excluded from the statute, notes that he grew up “in low country Georgia and you had standing water. And the chief breaks some news: U.S. That was normal.”.

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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. Santiago , the Illinois Court of Appeals in 2018 found that a defendant’s hostile language constituted aggression and thus invalidated his claim to self-defense. Similarly, in People v.

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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). Third, Holiday Inn was sued in Illinois by its own insurance company for making a coverage claim for a biometric class action.

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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

MARCH 6, 2011

The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) has been using the term "March Madness" to describe its state high school basketball tournament since the early 1940's. But the development of March Madness is a bit more interesting, and you can probably thank Brent Musburger for that.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The court also agreed Siemens AG could not be subject to specific personal jurisdiction in Illinois. .” Given these minimal forum contacts, the court found no error in dismissing for lack of general jurisdiction, citing precedents like Daimler AG v. Bauman , 571 U.S. 117 (2014). and did not directly facilitate U.S. Dos Reis Jr.

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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. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state. The United States legal system is immensely complex.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 1, 2022

Later, however, defendants filed a motion to dismiss, asserting that “the original complaint was a nullity that did not serve to toll the statute of limitations and that the statute of limitations had now expired.” Illinois Cent. The trial court “reluctantly granted the motion” to dismiss, and this ruling was affirmed on appeal.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Beginning in March 2013, Michael Johnson, a state prisoner in Illinois convicted of murder, was held in solitary confinement for over three years. Prentice : In most prisons, those held in solitary confinement are still allowed regular exercise. However, exercise can be denied for a period in response to misconduct. relisted after the Sept.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

In Nestlé , the court held that a “triple-foreign” claim (a foreign plaintiff asserting that a foreign defendant injured him in a foreign country) cannot proceed under the Alien Tort Statute, even if the claim is that a US company aided and abetted the wrong.

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Patently O

JANUARY 18, 2024

The court also rejected CyWee’s argument that it was denied meaningful Director review in the timeframe required by statute after the PTAB’s final written decision. Former Illinois Law Professor Jay Kesan represented the patentee here. Citing its recent rulings on this issue in Arthrex, Inc. Smith & Nephew, Inc. , 4th 1328 (Fed.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

The government takes the position that the statute forecloses only review of discretionary decisions not to grant relief, not factual findings that are factored into those decisions.) City of Chicago, Illinois , 20-1214 , petitioner Fred Eychaner owned property in Chicago’s “River West” area. City of Chicago, Illinois , 20-1214.

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