The Illinois Supreme Court issued rulings on four civil cases Thursday.In Rice v. Marathon Petroleum Corp., No. 129628, the high court ruled that the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (EPA) does ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that said the district discriminated against ...

Five Cook County acting presiding judges have been elevated to presiding judge in their divisions effective immediately, Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans announced Thursday.

An online cosmetics company must face a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago accusing it of violating the privacy of potential customers with the handling of its website’s “Virtual Try-on” feature, a ...

A former student does not have a discrimination suit against the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine for allegedly failing to accommodate her disabilities, which she claims resulted ...

The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events ...

Last year, while the General Assembly was seeking to amend Section 1007.1 of the Code of Civil Procedure to allow greater opportunities for certain classes of plaintiffs to seek expedited trials, ...

Where a will permits a named party to purchase an estate’s property at a specified price prior to it being distributed to the devisees, the named party has an option on that property.

Where plaintiff did not specify what remedy he was seeking, while injunctive relief and punitive damages were both unavailable, remand was required to determine whether case was justiciable.

A federal judge has signed off on the $600 million class action settlement over last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio, but many people who live near East Palestine are ...

An insurance company did not breach its duty to a client in rejecting a $2 million settlement in a wrongful death and survival action, a federal judge ruled.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the 200th federal judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure, about a month earlier than when Donald Trump hit that mark in his term, though Trump still holds the edge ...