Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation examine the process of bail hearings according to a new movement to banish ...

As the Illinois Appellate Court weighs arguments over the future of police discipline in Chicago, two rulings by the Chicago Police Board have been bolstered by Cook County judges. In one case, ...

A federal court has again ruled in favor of the 3PL industry on the issue of broker liability. The post C.H. Robinson – and ...

"By the plain language of § 1447(c), then, once the district court determined it lacked jurisdiction, it was required to ...

In a legal malpractice action arising out of revisions to a client's estate plan, the appellate court considered whether an ...

Hadiya Pendleton was spending time with friends when she was hit by a bullet meant for someone else shortly after she ...

"The fact that attorneys' fees can quickly exceed the value of disputes is both a sad fact of litigation and also precisely the reason that attorneys' fees for unreasonable and bad faith litigation ...

The alleged gunman in the fatal shooting of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton has been granted a new trial. Micheail Ward was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to 84 years in prison for the 15-year-old ...

Micheail Ward was found guilty and sentenced to 84 years in prison for the 2013 murder of Pendleton. His conviction was overturned in 2023, and a tie vote from the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the ...

An Illinois appeals court decision that overturned the convictions for a man accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013 will stand after the state’s highest court found ...

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 ...

The Illinois Supreme Court ... asks the state's high court to address an earlier ruling from the Fourth District Appellate Court that would have cleared the way for Grayson's release from ...