A judge did not overstep his bounds when he awarded the plaintiff in a trademark-infringement lawsuit $900,000 in punitive damages in addition to nearly $550,000 in compensatory damages and disgorged ...

A woman suing Walgreen Co. over alleged violations of the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) has standing to continue with the suit as a class action, despite not making a claim ...

Changes that would make Illinois pension systems compliant with Social Security by improving benefits for government ...

Where defendant is denied access to counsel by the court during an overnight recess, his Sixth Amendment right to counsel has been violated.

The Justice Department unsealed a civil complaint Wednesday alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled “unlawful” prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

Chicago-Kent College of Law has named Jason J. Czarnezki its new dean, effective June 1, the university announced Wednesday.

After calling 50 witnesses over the last two months, prosecutors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial rested their case Wednesday, followed immediately by ...

The litigation over state versions of American Bar Association Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(g) continues with the recent decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cerame v.

Where defendant need not object to district court’s explanation of its sentence in order to preserve the issue for de novo appellate review.

Though he wouldn’t get a formal diagnosis of dementia until a few years — and one felony plea — later, former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo told FBI agents and government lawyers in a September 2019 ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider South Carolina’s move to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest abortion-related case since the justices overturned ...

The Illinois Supreme Court will hear three civil cases in its January term, including a challenge to a venue rule that limits certain constitutional claims against the state to being brought only in ...