In an effort to resume in-person hearings and jury trials, the federal courts in Chicago and Rockford will require regular COVID-19 testing for court employees and potential jurors.

When Patrick Dankwa John started attending Decalogue Society CLE programs in the late ’90s, he did not realize the organization was Jewish — nor did he anticipate he would one day become its first Black and first gentile president.

An state appeals panel held that subpoena disputes are governed under Illinois rules law even when the subpoena originates from another state’s court system.

“You are all part of history today,” Frederick J. Joseph III told six jurors on a Zoom screen Thursday, beginning his closing argument in Illinois’ first-ever remote jury trial.

Chicago’s school board has the implied power to suspend teachers in cases where dismissal is too harsh a punishment, a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court ruled last month.

An invitation to a free seminar does not make a viable junk-fax case under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a federal judge held Thursday.

The Illinois Supreme Court reinstated a Will County defense verdict, finding the jury properly weighed whether or not a medical office’s patient-booking procedure amounted to negligence.

Students whose in-person classes at Loyola University of Chicago were moved online in light of the COVID-19 pandemic do not have a case for breach of contract, a federal judge ruled.