Where the state has already approached the court to authorize defendant’s arrest and set bail at defendant’s first appearance, the state may then petition to deny pretrial release.

Last year in a trio of cases, the Illinois Appellate Court reviewed how a circuit court should handle questions from a jury during deliberations: Edson v. Horwich¸ 2024 IL App (1st) 221877-U; Galich v ...

Where prisoner alleged he did not receive responses to two out of three grievances he filed related to denied medical care, and this was not contradicted by the record, district court erred in ...

Where plaintiff alleges defendants’ failure to notice client’s diminished capacity amounted to legal malpractice, whether defendants were “on notice” requires a weighing of evidence.

A Lake County Circuit Court employee failed to show he was a victim of sex discrimination when he was demoted for purportedly harassing a co-worker during a long-running child custody dispute between ...

A homeowner who alleged his home was destroyed when a heating fuel tank ruptured after PetroChoice LLC negligently delivered oil to his home lost a bid to reverse a verdict in favor of the company.

Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect.

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank.

A physician challenging the suspension of his professional license is not entitled to a second bite at the apple, a federal judge held.

A group of physicians and a medical center must pay $4 million to the family of a woman who died from a stroke as a result of alleged negligent care, a state appellate panel held.

Minimum wages.Name a hot topic, and chances are good there’s a new law about it taking effect in 2025 in one state or another ...

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.