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An Illinois federal judge didn't mince words Wednesday in explaining the rationale behind the nearly five-year sentence he handed down for a former Illinois state representative's admitted bribery, saying he was a "corruption superspreader" whose jail time needed to deter other public officials in the state and Chicago from engaging in the pervasive public corruption.

A Seventh Circuit panel pushed a Liberty Mutual unit Tuesday to address why it paid more than $1.4 million toward defense costs incurred by USA Gymnastics during investigations into sexual abuse by former team doctor Larry Nassar if it believed a lower court erred when it ordered the insurer to reimburse those legal fees.

A former athletic trainer for the Chicago White Sox claims in an Illinois state court lawsuit that he was fired for his sexual orientation, age and disability, and that the team's general manager defamed him and told other employees that he had either a gambling, alcohol or drug addiction.

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday cut a jury's award of $100 million in punitive damages to Atturo Tire Corp. in a dispute with rival Toyo Tire to just $100,000, saying the conduct "was not extreme" enough to warrant such a large finding, but kept intact the jury's $10 million compensatory damages award.

Facial recognition technology company Clearview AI has agreed to a nationwide injunction blocking most private entities from accessing its database of faceprints, in a deal resolving claims by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups that its practices violate Illinois' biometric privacy law.

Facial recognition technology company Clearview AI has agreed to a nationwide injunction blocking most private entities from accessing its database of faceprints in a deal resolving claims by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups that its practices violate Illinois' biometric privacy law.

The company behind Welch's Fruit Snacks claims its business will be "decimated" if an Illinois state court doesn't force a supplier of a key ingredient to fulfill its contractual obligations, saying it's been forced to operate at reduced capacity in recent weeks and could soon lose relationships with major retailers and be forced to lay off at least 200 employees.

An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced the former mayor of a Chicago suburb to a year and a day in prison for taking a bribe from the representative of a red-light camera company doing business in his village and for filing a false tax return.

In Law360's occasional roundup of Chicago lawyers' latest moves, Crowell & Moring has hired a brand protection litigator, Benesch has promoted and added new partners in the intellectual property and corporate spaces and Ballard Spahr has nabbed a patent litigator.

Illinois' top court held Thursday that former Chicago Bears player Richard Dent can't use presuit discovery to learn the identities of an Exelon subsidiary's employees who allegedly defamed him, saying their statements were privileged because they were made in the context of a workplace investigation.