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“It isn’t like the old days when you can jump in the shower, shave and be ready in 15 minutes. I wanted to make sure I was sharp.”

Former Belleville, IL police officer Jon Brough, after receiving the ISBA Law Enforcement Award from President Jack Carey at a city council meeting; Brough, critically injured and blinded in the line of duty, has received many honors, but said this one was special because it was presented in his hometown

“All of the justices used their power of judicial review … in ideologically predictable ways. Now it’s the justices we think of as conservative who are more likely to use the Constitution proactively.”

Univ. of Georgia law prof. Lori Ringhand who authored a study of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1994-2005 that found judicial activism on both ends of the liberal to conservative spectrum

“One of the things we recognize is it will be helpful for a woman to be able to request an exemption if she is still nursing her child. (Some judges) understand the value and some don’t.”

Don Siriani, chief of staff for a Massachusetts state senator who is introducing a bill to exempt nursing mothers from jury duty; eleven states, including Illinois, have adopted such laws

“This case just needs to go away. They are punishing this kid for something that is commonplace among his peers.”

Law prof. Rick Karcher, director of the Center for Law and Sports at Florida Coastal School of Law, on a lawsuit challenging NCAA suspension of Okla. State Univ. pitcher Andrew Oliver because of suspicion that he paid his lawyer-agents in violation of NCAA anti-agent rules