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New IL law opens employers, others to risk of massive punitive damages in wrongful death cases; Law could face challenges
HB219, signed by Pritzker, is another controversial state law that appears to have been enacted while ignoring by Democratic state lawmakers who ignored constitutional rules governing how laws must be approved -
Appeals court: IL Supreme Court must rein in lawmakers' abuse of legislative process
A Springfield appeals panel has called on Illinois' highest court to do more than just 'bluster' and follow through on threats to police state lawmakers who rely on prior leniency from the state Supreme Court to all but ignore constitutional rules governing how laws must be passed -
IL Supreme Court: Biometrics class actions can include claims over five years, not just one
The decision turned back another effort by businesses to limit the reach and impact of the state's stringent biometrics privacy law, which has been used to target thousands of businesses with massive class actions, primarily over employee fingerprint scans when punching time clocks -
Illinois Supreme Court agrees fitness centers may be liable if staff fail to use AED when needed
Plaintiffs allowed to sue for willful, wanton negligence over non-use of life-saving device to treat cardiac arrest -
Champerty once was a crime and still should be
What’s the difference between liberals and conservatives? Conservatives look for things that are broken, so they can fix them. Liberals do just the opposite. -
IL legislation would OK 'predatory lending practices' in third-party lawsuit funding, boost costs for all, biz groups warn
SB1099, the so-called Consumer Legal Funding Act, would produce even more lawsuits, that take longer to settle, while allowing lawsuit investors to charge 18% interest rates, assessed every 6 months, to people borrowing money to fund lawsuits, business groups say -
'Loud and furious debate': IL Right of Conscience lawsuits to test limits of COVID, vax mandate authority
NorthShore University Health System is just the latest in a mounting number of Illinois employers that should expect to be threatened with lawsuits under Illinois state law for denying religious exemptions to vaccine mandates. -
Gov. Pritzker Announces Sixteen Appointments to Illinois Boards and Commissions as of August 31, 2021
Gov. Pritzker Announces Sixteen Appointments to Illinois Boards and Commissions as of August 31, 2021. -
Callis, Crowe, Zanotti on short list for U.S. Attorney SDIL; Callis family big contributors
WASHINGTON - Democrat Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have sent a list of names to the White House to consider for U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois: former Madison County chief judge Ann Callis, State Sen. Rachelle Crowe (D-Maryville) and Williamson County State's Attorney Brandon Zanotti. -
'Bringing balance back': Reforms could be coming to IL biometrics law used to 'extort' IL employers, advocates say
A proposal to reform provisions in the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act used for years by lawyers to target employers over technical violations of the law, drew rare bipartisan support in an Illinois state House committee vote on March 9. -
BIPA reform bill passes committee in bi-partisan vote; Trial lawyers did not oppose
A proposal to reform the state's Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) was passed in the House Judiciary-Civil Committee Tuesday afternoon in a bi-partisan vote of 10-5-1. -
Madigan leaves trial lawyers with parting gift: Up to 2 years of 9% interest
Lame duck lawmakers and the outgoing Illinois House speaker are trying to hand trial lawyers some extra cash. Gov. J.B. Pritzker is being urged to veto the bill. -
Where Democrat Rep. Jay Hoffman’s comes from and goes to
SPRINGFIELD – Among 74 Democrats in the state House, 32 campaigned with Rep. Jay Hoffman’s money in their treasuries from January 2018 to last September. -
ITLA president: ATRA's 'Hellhole' report cruelly seizes on deadly pandemic as opportunity to shield funders from accountability for wrongdoing
Even as the number of Illinoisans sickened by the coronavirus rises, and the state’s hospitals and ICUs fill with COVID-19 patients, a corporate front group is trying to capitalize on the crisis by disseminating misinformation intended to help its benefactors evade legal accountability for harm done to innocent people. -
Illinois has the best courts money can buy
Appeals Court Judge Judy Cates has long benefitted from generous donations from lawyers and law firms far and wide. Now that she’s running for a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court, the generosity is snowballing. -
Sponsors of Kilbride anti-retention spend against election of Cates
SPRINGFIELD – Business owners spending $5 million against retention of Tom Kilbride in the Supreme Court’s Third District started spending against election of Fifth District candidate Judy Cates on Oct. 15. -
ICJL issues ratings in judicial and retention contests; Shines light on 'massive sums' spent by trial lawyers for SupCo
The Illinois Civil Justice League (ICJL) says it’s hard to ignore the “massive sums” of money being spent by trial lawyers to win two important state Supreme Court elections.They include a southern Illinois race between Republican David Overstreet and Democrat Judy Cates – who both serve as justices at the Fifth District Appellate Court. -
Trial lawyers prioritizing Kilbride retention race versus Overstreet-Cates contest; Big money pouring in to anti-retention effort
SPRINGFIELD – With two Supreme Court seats at stake, far more Democrat dollars flow to retention of Justice Thomas Kilbride than to election of Judy Cates. -
ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT: Illinois Supreme Court Appoints Kujawa As Resident Judge in 20th Judicial Circuit
Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of L. Dominic (Nick) Kujawa Jr. as a Resident Circuit Judge for St. Clair County in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit. -
Belleville attorney Kujawa to fill seat vacated by McGlynn
Attorney L. Dominic (Nick) Kujawa Jr. will be appointed resident circuit judge for St. Clair County later this month to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Stephen McGlynn, who was appointed to the federal bench last month at the Southern District of Illinois.