Two officers stood on Fernando Rodriguez’s outstretched arms, handcuffs connecting his wrists. Another stood on the shackles binding the 24-year-old’s legs. A fourth officer kneeled on Rodriguez’s ...

Where foster parents have been denied their right to be heard during proceedings for a child under their care, they are entitled to mandamus relief but it is not their exclusive remedy.

The son of a man who had a heart attack and died after shoveling snow for his employer is entitled to seek workers’ compensation benefits as his father’s surviving child, an Illinois appeals court ...

Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in artificial intelligence systems, racial and gender biases are well documented.

While Cortez Turner was in a hospital room being treated for a gunshot wound to his leg in 2016, police took his clothes. Now, the Illinois Supreme Court is weighing whether that action violated ...

Seventy years ago on Friday, no one outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building heard it when Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on school ...

Two officers stood on Fernando Rodriguez’s outstretched arms, handcuffs connecting his wrists. Another stood on the shackles ...

In an epilogue at the end of a 126-page decision on a request for summary judgment that was “a monumental waste of time,” a district judge in Massachusetts with 46 years of experience on the bench ...

A law firm is not barred by res judicata from recovering unpaid legal fees from a former client as nonpayment persisted after a prior judgment was entered, a split state appellate panel ruled.

A McHenry County jury awarded more than $2.9 million to the family of a man who died of a medical condition caused by a tear in his aorta about 30 hours after an urgent care center diagnosed him with ...

I recently met with someone I’ll call Thomas who fancies himself a “top networker.” I invested an hour over breakfast where I listened to him trash talk a half dozen people in our mutual networks. He ...

Where district court prevented supervisee from cross-examining probation officer who provided description of video evidence during revocation hearing, court erred but error was harmless.