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Reporting on litigation, decisions and trends in Chicago's civil courtrooms

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Simmons Hanly can’t ditch racketeering suit over ‘sham’ asbestos claims legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Simmons Hanly can’t ditch racketeering suit over ‘sham’ asbestos claims

Simmons Hanly can’t ditch racketeering suit over ‘sham’ asbestos claims

CHICAGO — One of America's most prominent asbestos lawsuit firms can't escape a lawsuit accusing them of engineering a fraud and racketeering scheme of "serial sham lawsuits" to rake in

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Simmons Hanly can’t ditch racketeering suit over ‘sham’ asbestos claims legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Simmons Hanly can’t ditch racketeering suit over ‘sham’ asbestos claims

Simmons Hanly can’t ditch racketeering suit over ‘sham’ asbestos claims

CHICAGO — One of America's most prominent asbestos lawsuit firms can't escape a lawsuit accusing them of engineering a fraud and racketeering scheme of "serial sham lawsuits" to rake in

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A company paid $80M to build a recycling plant Chicago City Hall had encouraged. City's health commissioner then killed the plan under pressure from activists & Biden White House, using criteria not in the law. But that's OK, appeals court says legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Chicago health commish OK to use ‘broad powers’ to kill $100M recycling plant: Appeals court

Chicago health commish OK to use ‘broad powers’ to kill $100M recycling plant: Appeals court

CHICAGO — Chicago's city public health commissioner can use criteria and reasons not spelled out in the law to block building permits for the development of a new Southwest Side

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Chicago health commissioner OK to use ‘broad powers’ to kill $100M recycling plant project, using criteria not spelled out in law, after project was advanced with city encouragement and secured all other needed approvals: Appeals court legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Chicago health commish OK to use ‘broad powers’ to kill $100M recycling plant: Appeals court

Chicago health commish OK to use ‘broad powers’ to kill $100M recycling plant: Appeals court

CHICAGO — Chicago's city public health commissioner can use criteria and reasons not spelled out in the law to block building permits for the development of a new Southwest Side

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Cook County asks SCOTUS to end ‘assault weapons’ ban case on technicality legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Cook County asks SCOTUS to end ‘assault weapons’ ban case on technicality

Cook County asks SCOTUS to end ‘assault weapons’ ban case on technicality

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than a month before the Supreme Court is scheduled to take up the legal challenge against Cook County's so-called "assault weapons" ban, lawyers for the county

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Chicago's health commissioner has 'broad powers' to use criteria beyond those spelled out in law to kill development projects in the name of public health, a state appeals court has ruled legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Chicago health commish OK to use ‘broad powers’ to kill $100M recycling plant: Appeals court

Chicago health commish OK to use ‘broad powers’ to kill $100M recycling plant: Appeals court

CHICAGO — Chicago's city public health commissioner can use criteria and reasons not spelled out in the law to block building permits for the development of a new Southwest Side

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CTU ‘defamation’ lawsuit a ‘transparent attempt’ to censor critics: Court filing legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
CTU ‘defamation’ lawsuit a ‘transparent attempt’ to censor critics: Court filing

CTU ‘defamation’ lawsuit a ‘transparent attempt’ to censor critics: Court filing

CHICAGO — Saying Chicago's powerful teachers' union is using the courts to censor and retaliate against critics using satirical memes to pillory the politically influential labor group, one of the

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Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns

Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cook County has filed its primary brief in defense of its ban on so-called "assault weapons" before the Supreme Court, as the county's state's attorney argues the

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Cook County tells SCOTUS state and local governments can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns, no matter how many of those guns are owned by law-abiding citizens. And those who don't like it, can leave legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns

Cook County tells SCOTUS govts can ban ‘exceptionally dangerous’ guns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cook County has filed its primary brief in defense of its ban on so-called "assault weapons" before the Supreme Court, as the county's state's attorney argues the

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Judge orders Smith Firm to reveal who is pulling strings in Paraquat cases legalnewsline.com/madison-st…
Judge orders Smith Firm to reveal who is pulling strings in Paraquat cases

Judge orders Smith Firm to reveal who is pulling strings in Paraquat cases

EAST ST. LOUIS — One of the law firms behind an avalanche of lawsuits attempting to force the makers of commercial weed killer Paraquat to pay for allegedly not warning

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Jury: Criminal fleeing Chicago cops to blame for woman’s death in crash, not city legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Jury: Criminal fleeing Chicago cops to blame for woman’s death in crash, not city

Jury: Criminal fleeing Chicago cops to blame for woman’s death in crash, not city

CHICAGO — A Cook County jury won’t force the city of Chicago pay millions of dollars to the family of a woman who was killed in a crash caused by

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Feds OK to join discrimination lawsuit vs Evanston racial reparations program legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Feds OK to join discrimination lawsuit vs Evanston racial reparations program

Feds OK to join discrimination lawsuit vs Evanston racial reparations program

CHICAGO — The Justice Department will be allowed to press ahead with its effort to add the weight of the federal government to a court fight challenging the city of

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Family can’t sue Latin School over boy’s bully-driven suicide: Appeals court legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Family can’t sue Latin School over boy’s bully-driven suicide: Appeals court

Family can’t sue Latin School over boy’s bully-driven suicide: Appeals court

CHICAGO — A state appeals panel will not allow the parents of a boy who died by suicide — which the parents attribute to bullying at Chicago’s prestigious Latin School

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Loevy lawyers getting $104M from city under deal to settle 16 murder conviction suits, even though prosecutors aren't convinced all the men freed from their sentences are innocent. And a city lawyer hints there could be more on the way legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Loevy lawyers getting $104M from city under deal to settle 16 murder conviction suits

Loevy lawyers getting $104M from city under deal to settle 16 murder conviction suits

CHICAGO — Lawyers from the firm of Loevy + Loevy, who have built much of their current business practice on suing Chicago for alleged police misconduct and wrongful convictions, are

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‘Reeks of pretext:’ Evanston can’t ditch lawsuit from white fired cop records supervisor legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
‘Reeks of pretext:’ Evanston can’t ditch lawsuit from white fired cop records supervisor

‘Reeks of pretext:’ Evanston can’t ditch lawsuit from white fired cop records supervisor

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — Saying the city's story "reeks" of an attempt to cover up potentially unlawful racial discrimination, a federal judge says a white woman who was fired from her

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Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years legalnewsline.com/madison-st…
Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years

Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years

SPRINGFIELD — A Wood River lawyer who has clashed with the state of Illinois on several occasions in challenges to constitutionally questionable state laws has had his law license suspended

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Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years legalnewsline.com/madison-st…
Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years

Lawyer known for challenging IL gun, venue laws suspended for two years

SPRINGFIELD — A Wood River lawyer who has clashed with the state of Illinois on several occasions in challenges to constitutionally questionable state laws has had his law license suspended

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Muslim doctors latest to challenge IL assisted suicide law legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Muslim doctors latest to challenge IL assisted suicide law

Muslim doctors latest to challenge IL assisted suicide law

CHICAGO — A group of Muslim doctors have joined their names to the growing list of medical professionals, health care organizations and others seeking to strike down Illinois' state law

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McDonald’s turns back black franchisees’ discrimination claims legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
McDonald’s turns back black franchisees’ discrimination claims

McDonald’s turns back black franchisees’ discrimination claims

CHICAGO — A federal judge won't allow a group of four dozen black McDonald's franchisees to pull forward with most of their racial discrimination claims against the world's largest fast

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Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras legalnewsline.com/cook-count…
Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras

Chicago appeals court to weigh in on fate of IL license plate reader cameras

CHICAGO — As debate intensifies across the U.S. over the ability of police and other government agencies to use license plate-reading cameras, a federal appeals court in Chicago later this

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