Where plaintiff’s employment record contained many comments over the years remarking on issues of communication and professionalism, plaintiff failed to supply evidence that termination was based on ...

Where a judgment debtor has a cash bond paid by a third party, that bond cannot be seized and turned over to the judgment creditor as partial payment of the owed debt.The 1st District Appellate Court ...

Patrick Eckler is a partner at Freeman, Mathis, & Gary LLP representing defendants in civil matters. He is secretary/treasurer of the Illinois Defense Counsel and co-host of the Podium and Panel ...

A woman who was injured when a tree branch fell on her failed to convince a state appellate panel to allow spoliation claims against the city of Chicago over its loss of a tree limb, alleging the ...

A federal judge rejected a bid by three Illinois voters to force the state to scrap electronic voting in favor of hand-counting ballots.

A federal court has rejected Alex Murdaugh’s request to throw out his 40-year sentence for stealing from clients and his law firm. The disgraced South Carolina lawyer said his punishment is a decade ...

Where the evidence was inconclusive as to whether exception to requirement to register as a CTA applied to introducing broker, summary judgment was reversed in part to allow district court to make a ...

Where a vehicle contract indicates the vehicle is sold “as is” and acknowledges that other implied warranties “may” apply, this does not provide an implied warranty of merchantability.

Seven judicial candidates running for Cook County Circuit Court received negative ratings in the Chicago Bar Association’s evaluation for the Nov. 5 general election.The evaluation, released Wednesday ...

Today's announcements are for 10-2-2024.

An attorney who engaged in repeated dishonest conduct to conceal his neglect of three legal matters should be suspended for two years, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary ...

The Justice Department announced Monday it plans to launch a review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, an attack by a white mob ...