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A Jenner & Block LLP partner testified this week that he faced at times "relentless" pressure to direct legal work when he was in-house counsel for Commonwealth Edison to an ally of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, and that he found himself raising concerns when the utility sought to hire Madigan associates.
Chicago federal jurors on Thursday heard a wiretap recording of a former Commonwealth Edison lobbyist on trial for bribing ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan saying that even though the lobbyist was being paid by ComEd, "my client is the speaker."
Prosecutors told a Chicago federal jury Wednesday that they would hear more than 100 recordings of four former Commonwealth Edison executives and lobbyists describing in their own words an intricate, yearslong scheme to bribe former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan to advance the utility's legislative agenda.
An Illinois federal judge Wednesday refused to dismiss or send to arbitration a proposed class action accusing an Albertsons subsidiary of collecting and storing employees' voiceprints without securing the informed permission required under Illinois' biometric privacy law.
American Zurich Insurance Co. and the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago told a Cook County judge Tuesday they had agreed to end a lawsuit claiming the insurer doesn't have to defend the hotel against claims it unlawfully stored employees' fingerprints, as the underlying biometric privacy litigation has settled.