An 84-year-old veteran is suing for fraud after he says he was led to believe he’d won $10,000 but instead got pressured into buying a car he couldn’t afford.

A federal judge in New York issued a preliminary order Tuesday blocking the Trump administration from cutting off states’ access to hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic relief funds for public schools, including more than $77 million for Illinois.

A former Chicago elementary school principal who was charged in a 2021 wire fraud case was found dead after she failed to appear for her sentencing hearing, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed.

The global trade war boosted nearly every major practice area for law firms in the first quarter of 2025, but the months ahead “may be rocky indeed,” according to a summary by the Thomson Reuters Institute of its latest Law Firm Financial Index.

Lawyers representing neighbors complaining about odors from a Mount Prospect animal feed producer in a class-action lawsuit met Tuesday at a Des Plaines church with clients and interested parties.

University president Robert Manuel faced three hours of heated questions, while a civil rights lawyer compared a Washington hearing Wednesday to a long-discredited anti-communism campaign from the Cold War era.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has called on the Department of Justice and the FBI to "immediately investigate" a string of anonymous pizza deliveries sent to judges' homes.