Daily Legal News Archive

Friday, February 21, 2025

The Sun-Times reviewed the policies of 15 major Illinois-based public companies and found some changed their policies and others won’t discuss them amid what experts blame on fears of being sued.

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Chicago Sun-Times

While two of the three people convicted in the murder of Karyn Hearn Slover are dead, the Illinois Innocence Project said it will continue to fight for post-conviction relief for the Slover family.

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WAND

Ali M. Summers has been named the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. As Acting U.S. Attorney, she is the chief federal law enforcement official in the Southern District of Illinois.

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RiverBender.com

A judge ruled Thursday that victims of the Highland Park parade mass shooting can be present at the suspect’s trial that will begin on Monday with jury selection.

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Lake & McHenry County Scanner

Lauren Aronson, who directs the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign says the president’s series of executive orders on immigration upon taking office, shook her clients’ and students’ lives.

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NPR Illinois