Friday, September 26, 2025
State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s prosecutors are routinely asking judges to keep suspects in jail until trial when they’ve been charged with having a machine gun — mostly handguns converted into automatic weapons.
Federal charges have been filed against a Chicago man accused of forging the signatures of two federal judges in court filings in an attempt to lift restrictions that had been placed on him after several of his civil lawsuits were deemed frivolous.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from enforcing the “Defund Provision” in the recently enacted federal budget reconciliation law.
Mercer County School Board President Bill Smock issued a statement Thursday regarding the arrest of the district’s superintendent and two other employees for allegedly accessing student medical records.
The 22nd edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, released in May, includes a new Rule 18.3 for citing output from generative AI. Critics argue that the new rule “is fundamentally flawed in both conception and execution,” LawSites reports.