A clarification to Illinois’ biometric data privacy law made by state lawmakers earlier this year limits the size of damages that can be claimed in lawsuits over Biometric Information Privacy Act ...

A Cook County jury awarded $20 million to a Skokie man who fell into a coma as a result of allegedly negligent medical care.

During Donald Trump’s first term as president, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly spent much of their time enacting laws and policies in direct opposition to the ...

Where counsel failed to file written consent on behalf of plaintiffs in a collective action, there were no valid parties to appeal and it was dismissed.

The Supreme Court recently heard the Facebook case on risk factors and public disclosures. Last week, it was looking at investors and public companies again, this time with Nvidia and a proposed class ...

Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...

For nearly eight years, former Chicago Ald. Frank Olivo had a monthly ritual.

Illinois will receive a $40 million share of a $1.4 billion bipartisan national settlement with Kroger over the grocery chain ...

Law enforcement officers did not run afoul of the U.S. Constitution by failing to get a search warrant before continuously recording the activity outside a drug suspect’s home, a federal appeals court ...

A man facing deportation over a decades-old guilty plea for drug possession should have his plea vacated, a state appellate panel ruled.

A business owner cannot pursue a lawsuit alleging that a retired arson investigator fabricated evidence that led to his arrest for a fire set at his bar, a federal judge ruled.

The banker who prosecutors said helped Alex Murdaugh move millions of dollars around to avoid detection of his thefts in exchange for a share of the money had his conviction and seven-year prison ...