Courts & Cases

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The U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois hosted an opening event for the Magistrate Judge History Project Wednesday at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. The project is designed to preserve the history of magistrate judges who served on the court. – Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Magistrate judges honored at Dirksen courthouse exhibit

Federal magistrate judges shoulder burdens that otherwise would weigh down their life-tenured colleagues on the federal trial bench, according to Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois.
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Illinois proposal calls for expanding vote-by-mail

As the 2024 election season draws near, voters in Illinois will once again choose whether they want to cast their ballots in person or by mail.
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Mariyana Spyropoulos says she’d be change agent as court clerk

After more than a decade as a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board, Mariyana Spyropoulos is hopeful that she will be making a job title change to clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Trial Notebook

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Court weighs informed consent on alternative treatment options

With no local precedent on an important aspect of informed consent in a malpractice case against an emergency medicine physician, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals looked at “the primary cases” from other jurisdictions on “the duty to inform the patient of alternative treatment options.”

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