Friday, March 14, 2025
If you’re among more than 19,000 people wounded by gunfire since 2018, the chances that anyone will be charged with shooting you are only about 6%.
Illinois judges are required to consider a person's youth during sentencing, yet many people are serving life sentences without parole because they were sentenced before state law changed in 2012.
A federal appeals court has revived a First Amendment retaliation claim by a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law who used an “expurgated racial slur” on an exam question, leading to an investigation, required diversity training, a suspension and denial of a pay raise.
Two federal judges have handed down orders requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies.
A federal district court has denied a motion by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. to dismiss a second amended complaint alleging it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting and storing biometric information through its Neutrogena Skin 360 beauty app without consumers’ informed consent or knowledge.