Thursday, April 25, 2024
DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek continues to refuse to answer questions about no-bid contracts awarded by her office, potentially setting the stage for a legal fight with the county board.
State inspector general blasts three lawyers for multiple conflicts of interest, double billing.
In a welcome win for defendants litigating claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, earlier this month a Northern District of Illinois magistrate judge denied a plaintiff’s motion to compel communications between defendant Union Pacific Railroad Company and the vendors that provided it with fingerprint-activated security gates.
A Chicago woman is accusing American Airlines of racial discrimination after one of its flight attendants allegedly confronted her after she used the plane's first-class lavatory.
During the 2023 harvest season, one of Jake Lieb’s tractors quit working. A week later, his combine stopped working, too. Both were new — and he was locked out from making any repairs himself because of software restrictions embedded in the machines.
In 2017, 52-year-old middle school teacher Chuck Koplinski filed a discrimination charge against Urbana School District 116 with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that his salary was lower than what it should have been based on the district’s salary scale.