The Illinois Supreme Court issued 27 pages of case dispositions last week, its largest number by page count in quite some time with three (really two because the appeals were consolidated) petitions ...

Where plaintiff asserts legal malpractice, they must show that but for the legal advice given they would have pursued a different course of action.The 1st District Appellate Court affirmed the ...

Where evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain conviction of wire fraud because amount of income defendant earned from employment was irrelevant to ineligibility for railroad disability ...

Where employee was fired for refusal to take unconscious bias training, employee could not show that he had an objectively reasonable belief that training violated the law, as was required for a claim ...

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DeKalb Community Unit District 428 must face Title IX claims a minor and her parents brought against it after the girl was allegedly groomed and sexually abused by a student teacher when she was in ...

Ensuring that the reviewing court has jurisdiction over an appeal is fundamental to appellate practice. Two recent cases, one in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and one before the Illinois ...

The attorney representing Milagros Encarnacion, a pedestrian hit by a post office vehicle, argued that a letter from an insurance company — seeking reimbursement for $10,000 of her medical expenses — ...

Where a defendant does not claim accident or mistake but simply denies the alleged criminal act took place, evidence of prior acts cannot be admitted to show defendant’s intent as it is not disputed, ...

Chicago Alderman James Gardiner violated the First Amendment when he deleted critical comments from his official Facebook page and sometimes blocked the critics themselves, a federal judge held Monday ...

Where counsel for a defendant incorrectly advises that it may avoid a mandatory life sentence by pleading guilty, the defendant has been denied due process and should be permitted to withdraw his plea ...

Two media outlets did not libel a nonprofit organization by refusing to remove articles containing allegedly defamatory statements about the organization from their websites, a federal appeals court ...