Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...

The widow of a Chicago police officer cannot sue the city of Chicago over her husband’s death from allegedly contracting COVID-19 while on the job, a federal judge held.

A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois’ assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued an order ...

Where the state moves for civil forfeiture and establishes a prima facie case that the property is subject to forfeiture, the burden shifts to the claimant to establish that it is not.

While an election took place last Tuesday, the Supreme Court began its November oral arguments with four cases, including two on Election Day. One of the cases involved Facebook and the Cambridge ...

Jones Day added Melissa Vandewater as a partner to the firm’s real estate practice group in Chicago. She will also be part of the firm’s energy transition and infrastructure group, focusing on ...

Where district court did not err in accepting evidence of defendant’s culpability for drug-overdose death, because defendant's alternate theory was not supported by evidence in the record.The 7th U.S.