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The Seventh Circuit on Monday refused to reinstate a lawsuit brought by public school personnel challenging the Illinois governor's orders that they be tested regularly for COVID-19 unless they had been vaccinated, saying the plaintiffs improperly filed one suit in state court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and a second in federal court seeking damages.
A group founded by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller has filed a discrimination complaint against three Illinois federal judges over their efforts to encourage younger, female and minority attorneys to handle oral arguments in their courtrooms, saying the policies amount to "oral-argument affirmative action for lawyers."
A Michigan appellate panel ruled Thursday that a cannabis company's suit against Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, alleging the firm missed the deadline to file the company's applications for Illinois cannabis dispensing licenses because it was "too busy" with other clients, was itself filed too late and properly thrown out.
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday rescheduled the April racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to Oct. 8 to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret the federal bribery statute, but refused to grant his bid to stay the case entirely because "we have plenty of work to do."
Counsel for former Exelon Utilities CEO Anne Pramaggiore told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that regardless of how the nation's top court interprets the federal bribery statute later this year, the bribery convictions of his client and three former Commonwealth Edison lobbyists won't survive.