Lockport city attorney and Illinois State Bar Association president-elect Sonni Choi Williams is facing a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence (DUI), but a judge ruled Tuesday that there ...
In what will likely be a momentous decision for Illinois business, the Illinois Supreme court has agreed to take three certified questions from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the ...
For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who ...
A defendant who maintains his lawyer bungled the job by failing to argue on appeal that the trial judge should have recused himself from the case lost a bid for a new sentencing hearing.
With no local precedent on an important aspect of informed consent in a malpractice case against an emergency medicine physician, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals looked at “the primary cases” ...
Where a party seeks to modify a judgment for dissolution by asserting that a clause violates federal law, the petition to modify must be timely or the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.
Medicine must face a lawsuit alleging one of its surgeons caused pain and permanent injury by leaving impacted gauze in a patient’s nose after surgery, a state appellate panel ruled.
Where worker slipped on ice on deck of barge and fell into river, third party company whose barge collided with plaintiff’s barge the day before owed plaintiff no duty of care.
The Illinois Supreme Court agreed to consider actor Jussie Smollett’s appeal of his disorderly conduct conviction for lying about an alleged hate crime, along with accepting five civil Petition for ...
The NCAA wants states with legal wagering on sporting events to ban prop bets on college athletes.“Sports betting issues are on the rise across the country with prop bets continuing to threaten the ...
Where defendant is charged with violations of municipal ordinances by the municipality, the prosecution may not appeal an interlocutory order under Supreme Court Rule 604(a)(1).