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Containers of Roundup on a store shelf. A Northern California jury ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.05 billion to a couple who claimed the company's popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers. Monday’s verdict was Monsanto's third such loss in California since August. Monsanto owner Bayer said it would appeal. – AP Photo/Haven Daley

Monsanto faces $2B jury verdict in weed killer cancer case

A jury on Monday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.055 billion to a couple claiming that the company’s popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers.
By Paul Elias
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Public safety, civil rights groups battle over facial ID technology

San Francisco is on track to become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition by police and other city agencies, reflecting a growing backlash against a technology that’s creeping into airports, motor vehicle departments, stores, stadiums and home security cameras.
By Matt O’Brien and Janie Har
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Illinois’ newest lawyers sworn in

Inspiration can come from anywhere. Just ask the 335 new Illinois lawyers and those who admitted them to the bar Thursday.
By Andrew Maloney

Trial Notebook

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Last-minute defense not appropriate

Linda Reed argued she was ambushed during litigation with Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital when — after the curtain closed on discovery for her discrimination claim under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act — the Milwaukee hospital requested summary judgment based on an argument it didn’t previously mention or allege as an affirmative defense.
By Steven P. Garmisa

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Food trucks line up to serve customers and gather petition signatures in this July 2012 photo, taken days before the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance restricting the trucks from parking within 200 feet of restaurants. That ordinance was upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court Thursday, after finding the food truck regulations were not unconstitutional. AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong
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Food truck rules survive high court challenge
Women dressed as Handmaids, characters from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” stand by as House Democrats meet on the other side of the door to discuss the future of the Reproductive Health Act on Wednesday in the Illinois statehouse.
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With week to go, abortion law rewrite gets second chance
Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner R. Scott Falk takes part in a Chicago Humanities Festival reception in 2017. Falk died May 17. A memorial service will be conducted on Friday at Fourth Presbyterian Church.
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Kirkland merger expert, Red Cross leader dies
Mayor Lori Lightfoot (right) takes her oath from U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox (left) as her spouse Amy Eshleman (second left) and her daughter Vivian look during her inauguration ceremony Monday. Cox and Lightfoot worked together as assistant U.S. attorneys earlier in their careers and remain close friends.
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The Lightfoot administration begins
Demonstrators hold images of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos near their faces during an October protest at Amazon headquarters over the company's facial recognition system, "Rekognition," in Seattle. San Francisco is on track to become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition by police and other city agencies as the technology creeps increasingly into daily life. Studies have shown error rates in facial-analysis systems built by Amazon, IBM and Microsoft were far higher for darker-skinned women than lighter-skinned men.
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Public safety, civil rights groups battle over facial ID technology