The Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear five civil cases in its latest Petition for Leave to Appeal dispositions, including one in which a transgender woman was denied access to the women’s bathroom at her workplace, an East Aurora Hobby Lobby store. The high court also agreed to hear nine criminal cases, for a total of 14 accepted PLAs. It denied 157 cases, 47 of them civil and 110 criminal, in its November term. In Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Meggan Sommerville, et al., 2021 IL App (2d) 190362 , Sommerville was an …