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A financial adviser who was sentenced to over 13 years in prison for defrauding clients out of roughly $5 million urged the Seventh Circuit Thursday to vacate his conviction and sentence, saying the district court wrongly allowed his change of plea hearing to be conducted by phone during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Kroger Co. told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that an injunction blocking Grubhub from using a new logo until the court rules on the grocery giant's claims of trademark infringement is warranted to keep Kroger's Home Chef meal-kit delivery service from having to change its entire brand identity and advertising strategy.

A physician and professor at the University of Chicago entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday to charges that he traded on inside information from Five Prime Therapeutics Inc. ahead of the publication of positive results of a drug trial for its leading cancer drug bemarituzumab.

A pet store chain sued the state of Illinois in federal court Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of change to state law passed earlier this year barring the purchase of pets using credit, saying between 50% and 80% of its sales involves consumer lending to finance the purchase of dogs from its stores and affiliated breeders.

Some of the year's most significant rulings handed down by Illinois' appellate courts and the Seventh Circuit could add even more cases to the state's already steady flood of biometric privacy cases and prevent businesses from litigating in federal court. Here, Law360 looks at some of 2021's biggest decisions in Illinois courts.

Some of the year's most significant rulings handed down by Illinois' appellate courts and the Seventh Circuit could add even more cases to the state's already steady flood of biometric privacy cases and prevent businesses from litigating in federal court. Here, Law360 looks at some of 2021's biggest decisions in Illinois courts.

A group of Chicago-area restaurants suing for coverage of pandemic-related losses urged an Illinois state court not to grant their insurers' request to sever their claims into separate suits, arguing that another Cook County court refused to split up similar claims and that it's more efficient to keep them together.

Two rail unions and Amtrak asked an Illinois federal judge Thursday to hold off on considering the unions' bids for an injunction blocking the rail service's companywide vaccination policy, in the wake of a Georgia federal court ruling blocking a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

Former Illinois Rep. Edward "Eddie" Acevedo pled guilty Tuesday to a tax evasion charge after admitting in a plea agreement that he underreported and concealed the true source of his income and failed to file tax returns for several years.

Seventh Circuit Judge Diane P. Wood has garnered a reputation for being a persuasive writer, a pioneer for women in law and a jurist worthy of consideration for the nation's highest court. Here are five things to know about Judge Wood, whose recent decision to take senior status opens up a third vacancy for President Joe Biden to fill on the Chicago-based appeals court.