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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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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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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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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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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LegalReader

MARCH 4, 2021

Illinois is currently the only state in the country with a statute that allows consumers to seek monetary damages if their biometric information is wrongfully taken.

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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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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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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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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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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

” The opinion reads: Our country rightfully places great value on the freedom of speech, and any statute or regulation implicating speech receives close scrutiny. Freedom of speech, after all, is expressly protected in the very first of the original amendments to our Constitution. .”

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Assault weapons In early 2023, Illinois adopted the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which prohibits the possession of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Several Illinois municipalities adopted similar legislation. City of Naperville, Illinois , Langley v. In a consolidated appeal, a divided panel of the U.S.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Illinois prohibits Registered Persons from participating in any holiday event (Halloween, Christmas, and Easter) involving anyone under age 18, unless the offender is a parent or guardian of the person under 18 years of age present in the home and no non-familial minors are present.

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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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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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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The 2010 political broadcasting season is off to a fast start, with a controversy already erupting in connection with the Illinois Senate race to fill the seat once held by President Obama. Illinois has one of the first primaries in the nation for the 2010 election, to be held on February 2, 2010.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Food and Drug Administration-approved medications, herbal remedies, or other non-medical methods “will be falsely arrested on charges of violating abortion bans, homicide laws, and other criminal statutes. See also: Illinois Plans for Influx of 30,000 Patients if Roe Fall s, Chicago Tribune, May 4, 2022.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Cook County, Illinois , the states insist that the justices try to finally resolve this issue with full awareness of its complexity. Cook County, Illinois. In Texas v. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch joined that concurrence. It takes four votes to grant a petition.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

The justices did not act on two sets of high-profile petitions that they considered last week: a group of challenges to bans imposed by Illinois and several municipalities in that state on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as challenges to bans on gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

Writing in the University of Illinois Law Review Online , Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law in Houston, and Seth Barrett Tillman of the Department of Law from the National University of Ireland, don’t take a position on whether or not Trump committed any prosecutable offenses related to his actions on Jan. and conviction?Trump

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

“The movement has not been as swift as people imagine,” said panelist Kim Foxx, state’s attorney of Cook County, Illinois. Two areas that are in urgent need of change are the statutes of limitations on rape prosecutions and the racism and discrimination against LGBTQ complainants.

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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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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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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

citizens had a “ right to travel ” across state borders only after that right was consistently violated by residence statutes and internal border controls enforced by local police and state militias. In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. Thompson that U.S.

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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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2023

Meanwhile, states like New York , Illinois , Nevada , and California have extended their statute of limitations on a wide range of sex crimes that expand the window for survivors to take legal action against their attackers and receive justice. That problem also extends to the statute of limitations for sex offenders.

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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

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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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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