Pritzker announces changes to COVID-19 restrictions The state’s eleven regions in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s plan are now in four different classes of COVID-19 mitigation. Region 3, the central west portion of.
A Chicago police supervisor filed a lawsuit against the city Tuesday alleging he was removed from a citywide police unit because he wouldn’t be pressured to have officers working under him make “illegal” stops and arrests.
Supreme Court Rules on Seized Property in Bankruptcy
The Supreme Court has ruled that debtors aren’t entitled to have impounded property immediately returned to them as soon as they declare bankruptcy.
The 8–0 opinion in the case known as City of Chicago v. Fulton was written by Justice Samuel Alito. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who wasn’t yet a member of the high court when the case was argued on Oct. 13, 2020, didn’t participate in the case. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a separate, concurring opinion.
When a debtor files a petition for bankruptcy, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code protects the debtor’s interests by imposing an automatic stay “applicable to all entities” on efforts to collect pre-petition debts outside the bankruptcy proceeding. Efforts to exercise control over the property of the bankruptcy estate are forbidden.
âI asked, during our last meeting, no less than five separate times, for changes, because many in law enforcement have specifically talked about the qualified immunity elimination as their issue,â Sims said. âWhatâs your proposed solution on the other side? As I said to them and I say now, the perspective to do nothing and to just say no, is not an option.â
House Democrats also accused law enforcement groups of spreading misinformation about the proposals, citing a Facebook post from the Illinois Sheriffsâ Association that labels the legislation the âdefund the police bill.â The post falsely claims that the bill âcompletely eliminates felony murder immediatelyâ and makes other misleading claims, lawmakers said.