Caremark and other pharmacy benefit managers have asked a Cook County judge to disqualify out-of-state trial lawyers hired by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to assist with an investigation into insulin pricing practices. The companies say the lawyers could use the power of Raoul's office to help them in other lawsuits vs the companies
SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker, running for a second term on his own money, makes it possible for Democrats in three crucial campaigns to run on his money too.
The legislature doesn’t have any discretion to define what is and isn’t a bailable offense. It is within the purview of the courts to do under the constitution.
The lawsuit is the latest in a growing list of constitutional challenges launched in court against Gov. JB Pritzker and the SAFE-T Act, which critics allege would make it too difficult to hold violent criminals in jail while they await trial
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow says it takes Democratic lawmakers and Gov. JB Pritzker can't simply abolish cash bail without amending the state constitution. He further says Democrats trampled constitutional procedures in passing massive bill in the dead of night
The appeals panel said it is 'not naive' about Illinois' history of corruption, and that courts remain open to future lawsuits, if patronage hiring resumes. But they said federal court oversight of state hiring decisions cannot continue indefinitely.
An appeal has been filed in the case a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board brought against Jenny Thornley, the former merit board employee at the center of a multipronged case of alleged worker’s compensation fraud with connections to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office.