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Elite private colleges can’t cap off price-fixing collusion class action

Cook County Record

Elite private colleges can’t cap off price-fixing collusion class action

Scott Holland
Updated Jan 16, 2026

CHICAGO - A federal judge in Chicago has refused to end an antitrust class action complaint accusing elite universities of colluding in the fi…

SCOTUS takes up Roundup warning case; Billions of dollars at stake

Northern California Record

SCOTUS takes up Roundup warning case; Billions of dollars at stake

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Jan 16, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. - With billions of dollars at stake, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to settle the question of whether trial lawyers can co…

Boeing settles another lawsuit over deaths from Ethiopian Air crash

Cook County Record

Boeing settles another lawsuit over deaths from Ethiopian Air crash

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Jan 15, 2026

CHICAGO - Boeing has settled another of the lawsuits lodged against the company as a result of a 2019 airliner crash in Ethiopia.

Documentary shows cost of personal injury lawsuit abuse

Southeast Texas Record

Documentary shows cost of personal injury lawsuit abuse

Chris Dickerson
Updated Jan 14, 2026

WASHINGTON – A new documentary aims to shine a light on what happens when American citizens are victimized by the personal injury lawsuit system.

SCOTUS: Bost can challenge IL mail-in vote counting rules

Madison-St. Clair Record

SCOTUS: Bost can challenge IL mail-in vote counting rules

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Jan 14, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Illinois Democrats may yet need to defend an Illinois state law forcing election authorities to count all mail-in ballots r…

Theis abruptly retires from IL Supreme Court; Tailor to replace

Cook County Record

Theis abruptly retires from IL Supreme Court; Tailor to replace

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Jan 12, 2026

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois will have a new state Supreme Court justice at the end of January, after Justice Mary Jane Theis announced her sudden r…

Dems move to almost entirely block fed immigration enforcement in IL

Cook County Record

Dems move to almost entirely block fed immigration enforcement in IL

Jonathan Bilyk
Jan 12, 2026

CHICAGO - After enacting state laws forbidding local police from cooperating with federal immigration efforts, and after winning a court case …

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Reforms sliced BIPA class actions in 2025, new report says

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Reforms sliced BIPA class actions in 2025, new report says

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Jan 9, 2026

CHICAGO - Reforms to Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law appears to have doled out some relief in 2025 to employers and other businesse…

Mike Tyson, Ric Flair accuse ex-CBD products partners of $50M+ fraud

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Mike Tyson, Ric Flair accuse ex-CBD products partners of $50M+ fraud

Scott Holland
Updated Jan 8, 2026

CHICAGO - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson and WWE professional wrestler Ric Flair are leading a lawsuit they say is worth at lea…

Glen Ellyn can’t enforce Airbnb rules vs owner who says was target

Cook County Record

Glen Ellyn can’t enforce Airbnb rules vs owner who says was target

Scott Holland
Jan 7, 2026

GLEN ELLYN - The operators of a Glen Ellyn Airbnb property have won an junction blocking the village from enforcing an ordinance controlling s…

Convicted murderer can’t use IL juvy reform law to win chance at parole

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Convicted murderer can’t use IL juvy reform law to win chance at parole

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Jan 6, 2026

CHICAGO - A Chicago gang member in the midst of a 40-year sentence for shooting and killing an innocent man while the other man was carrying h…

Chicago car impounds not unconstitutional ‘taking’: Court

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Chicago car impounds not unconstitutional ‘taking’: Court

Scott Holland
Updated Jan 5, 2026

CHICAGO - A federal appeals panel says Chicago’s policy of towing and disposing of vehicles doesn’t reach the level of unconstitutional taking…

CTA must pay $3M to woman convicted of killing, dismembering landlord

Cook County Record

CTA must pay $3M to woman convicted of killing, dismembering landlord

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Jan 2, 2026

CHICAGO - The Chicago Transit Authority must pay nearly $3 million to a woman who was struck by a bus, even though jurors were blocked at tria…

Lake Co. Circuit Clerk can’t undo $2.5M verdict for workers fired over politics

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Lake Co. Circuit Clerk can’t undo $2.5M verdict for workers fired over politics

Scott Holland
Updated Dec 30, 2025

CHICAGO - A federal judge has agreed to preserve a jury’s verdict ordering the Lake County Circuit Clerk’s Office to pay more than $2.5 millio…

Raoul: Marijuana ‘dangers’ justify blocking IL users from owning guns

Cook County Record

Raoul: Marijuana ‘dangers’ justify blocking IL users from owning guns

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 29, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Six years ago, Illinois lawmakers added the state to the ranks of those legalizing the recreational use of marijuana — in p…

DOJ says IL law can’t be used to limit, sue, ‘harass' ICE agents

Madison-St. Clair Record

DOJ says IL law can’t be used to limit, sue, ‘harass' ICE agents

Jonathan Bilyk
Dec 23, 2025

EAST ST. LOUIS - Illinois has no constitutional authority to empower the state's trial lawyers and social justice organizations to use state c…

IL genetic privacy law can’t fuel class actions vs life insurers

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IL genetic privacy law can’t fuel class actions vs life insurers

Scott Holland
Updated Dec 22, 2025

ELGIN, ILLINOIS - An Illinois state appeals panel has agreed Illinois’ genetic information privacy law doesn’t allow lawsuits against life ins…

Supreme Court weighs gun owners’ challenge to IL transit carry ban

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Supreme Court weighs gun owners’ challenge to IL transit carry ban

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 19, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court says the Illinois Attorney's General office and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office will not b…

$3.5M verdict tossed; Judge shielded evidence of plaintiff’s dishonesty, crime

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$3.5M verdict tossed; Judge shielded evidence of plaintiff’s dishonesty, crime

Scott Holland
Updated Dec 18, 2025

CHICAGO - A state appeals panel voided a $3.5 million verdict awarded to a man who claimed he was hurt while working for Union Pacific because…

Kia, Hyundai to pay $9M, install anti-theft parts under deal with states

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Kia, Hyundai to pay $9M, install anti-theft parts under deal with states

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 17, 2025

LOS ANGELES - A coalition of state attorneys general from throughout the U.S. are trumpeting a deal with carmakers Kia and Hyundai, which they…

23 NEC lawsuits vs baby formula makers tossed from Cook County court

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23 NEC lawsuits vs baby formula makers tossed from Cook County court

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 16, 2025

CHICAGO - Nearly two dozen lawsuits lodged by trial lawyers on behalf of out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to use Cook County's famously plainti…

Lawsuit: City Hall rigged Riverwalk concession review for black-owned restaurant

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Lawsuit: City Hall rigged Riverwalk concession review for black-owned restaurant

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 15, 2025

CHICAGO - The Hispanic owner of the popular Beat Kitchen restaurant, who was booted by City Hall out of his spot on Chicago's busy Riverwalk, …

Judge overreached in ordering hundreds of illegal immigrants released

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Judge overreached in ordering hundreds of illegal immigrants released

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 12, 2025

CHICAGO - A Biden-appointed Chicago federal judge went too far in using a deal struck between the Biden administration and pro-immigrant activ…

Judge: CHA lawyers must pay $59K for citing ChatGPT-created cases

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Judge: CHA lawyers must pay $59K for citing ChatGPT-created cases

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 11, 2025

CHICAGO - Lawyers who defended the Chicago Housing Authority in a case that resulted in more than $32 million in judgments to two families who…

Rent collusion suit tossed vs manufactured home community operators

Cook County Record

Rent collusion suit tossed vs manufactured home community operators

Scott Holland
Updated Dec 10, 2025

CHICAGO - A federal judge has dismissed, for now, a class action accusing some of the nation’s largest manufactured home community landlords o…

Cook County property ‘tax sale’ system unconstitutional

Cook County Record

Cook County property ‘tax sale’ system unconstitutional

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 10, 2025

CHICAGO - Cook County's longstanding system of collecting property tax debts by seizing and selling people's homes, worth hundreds of thousand…

Cook, Madison, St. Clair counties again among worst ‘Judicial Hellholes’

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Cook, Madison, St. Clair counties again among worst ‘Judicial Hellholes’

Jonathan Bilyk
Dec 9, 2025

CHICAGO AND MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS - Thanks to disproportionate so-called "nuclear verdicts," rampant lawsuits based on "junk science," and …

Companies hit with hundreds of Lake County EtO lawsuits cry foul

Cook County Record

Companies hit with hundreds of Lake County EtO lawsuits cry foul

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 5, 2025

CHICAGO - A group of big medical device and chemical manufacturing companies are pushing back against attempts by trial lawyers to rope them i…

Family: Cook County, electronic monitoring vendor enabled woman’s murder

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Family: Cook County, electronic monitoring vendor enabled woman’s murder

Jonathan Bilyk
Updated Dec 4, 2025

CHICAGO - The family of a Chicago woman who was stabbed to death by her criminal estranged husband while he was wearing a court-ordered ankle …