Daily Legal News Archive

Friday, May 15, 2026

The Supreme Court says man can sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash.

From: 
WAND

All three acted “with profound malice, fabricating a case, suppressing evidence, and intentionally using false testimony” to destroy the Council member’s career, said Craig D. Tobin, Gardiner’s lawyer.

From: 
Chicago Sun-Times

With just two weeks left in the spring legislative session, Illinois Senate Democrats introduced an eight-bill package aimed at regulating some uses of artificial intelligence after a lack of federal action on the issue.

From: 
Capitol News Illinois

A hearing in a Whiteside County courtroom could have a ripple effect across Illinois as a lawyer challenges the jury pool in the case of Michael Cover.

From: 
Our QC News

The decision to release a five-time felon with four pending felony cases, including two violent robberies, on electronic monitoring was not a mistake, Cook County’s chief judge says, even though that man is now accused of going on to murder a Chicago police officer and gravely wounding the fallen officer’s partner.

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CWB Chicago