Two brothers who allege a coroner kept their murdered sister’s skull rather than turning it over with the rest of her remains failed to adequately state a claim for a violation of their right to due ...

Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration.

Illinois will receive a $40 million share of a $1.4 billion bipartisan national settlement with Kroger over the grocery chain ...

Where district court did not err in relying on photos from pole camera in defendant’s sentencing hearing because defendant had access to photos for more than two years before hearing.

A former Cook County assistant state’s attorney is not entitled to absolute immunity in a lawsuit alleging he played a role in wrongfully convicting a man for murder.Jose Cruz claims that he was ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would ...

BATON ROUGE, LA. — A new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 has been temporarily blocked after a federal judge granted a preliminary ...

Judge James M. Varga presides over jury trials in the Jury Section of the Law Division. He has written chapters and updates for the Law Division Jury Section Bench Book as well as numerous articles.

Where defendant files a pro se notice of appeal without first filing a motion to reconsider, she cannot seek to have the notice of appeal construed as a motion to reconsider.The 3rd District Appellate ...

CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on ...

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.