The City of Chicago will pay $5 million to five plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit alleging police officers performed unlawful, racially motivated stop-and-frisk searches.The city council approved ...

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 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently rejected an insured’s “stacking” claim under an automobile policy, but allowed a bad-faith claim for an insurer’s delayed payment ...

A student who alleges Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science conducted a biased investigation into a sexual assault complaint made against him does not have a case for sex discrimination ...

Ruth. Gehrig. DiMaggio. Mantle. Giuliani? As Rudy Giuliani’s life gets stripped for parts to satisfy a $148 million defamation verdict, the former New York City mayor is fighting to keep one gleaming ...

Where NLRB resolved unfair labor practices charges against company while appeal of temporary injunction was pending, resolution of the charges mooted the injunction and the appeal was dismissed.The ...

Chicago-based firms Romanucci & Blandin and Washington Law Group were part of a trial team that obtained a $98.6 million verdict in Texas after a jury ruled in favor of the family of a man fatally ...

Where a defendant seeks to invoke double jeopardy based on prosecutorial misconduct to bar a retrial of a case reversed on appeal, he must show that the prosecution intended the alleged misconduct to ...

A man who claims an unidentified co-worker used the N-word in reference to him while he was in a bathroom stall cannot sue his employer for discrimination, harassment and retaliation related to the ...