February 5, 2014
Lisa Madigan: Identity Thieves Targeting Children In Illinois From the Chicago Tribune Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan plans to appear before Congress on Wednesday to declare that identity theft...
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Insurers Face New Pressure Over Limited Doctor Choice From the Wall Street Journal Insurers are facing pressure from regulators and lawmakers about plans that offer limited choices of doctors and...
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Committee OKs Nominee For Southern Illinois Court Judgeship From the Belleville News-Democrat U.S. Senator Dick Durbin announced on Thursday that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously...
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WSJ Editorial: Busting the Asbestos Racket From the Wall Street Journal The worst public scandals are often those that travel in plain sight, and a prime example is the asbestos litigation racket....
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Health-Law Mandate Put Off Again From the Wall Street Journal Most employers won't face a fine next year if they fail to offer workers health insurance, the Obama administration said Monday, in the...
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Illinois Treasurer Lawsuit Worries Watchdog Groups From the Bloomington Pantagraph While a federal lawsuit against Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford has publicized salacious sexual harassment...
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More Than 88,000 Illinoisans Enroll In Obamacare From Crain's Chicago Business More than 88,000 Illinois residents have signed up for benefits via the public health insurance exchange through Feb. 1,...
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Madison County Defense Attorney: Judges Should Look For Asbestos Claims Fraud From Legal Newsline A recent ruling by a bankruptcy judge that exposed “double dipping” has an attorney in the nation’s...
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Illinois Lawmakers Don’t Want To ‘Wait And See’ With Concealed Carry From the Springfield State Journal-Register Illinois lawmakers are wasting no time in attempting to make changes to the state’s...
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Illinois Senate Leader Warns Of $3B Budget Hole From the Bloomington Pantagraph Illinois Senate President John Cullerton warned Monday of a nearly $3 billion state budget gap _ including a $1.6 billion...
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Illinois Lawmakers To Form Heroin Task Force From the Associated Press Illinois lawmakers are forming a task force to address what they say is a growing epidemic of heroin use. State Rep. Lou Lang...
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U. of I. Doctors Under Scrutiny For Surgical Robot Ad From the Chicago Tribune When the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot asked University of Illinois doctors to appear in a national advertising...
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Deep Pockets Swell Dockets: How Investors Fund Lawsuits From the Wall Street Journal What began as a cottage industry to fund personal-injury lawsuits has become a booming international business in...
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Lawyers Spar Over Discovery Rules From the National Law Journal Another major front in the war between plaintiffs and corporate defendants over the high costs of litigation has opened up in an obscure...
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Chicago To Be Research Site For Digital Manufacturing From the Associated Press Federal officials are expected to give more details about a new Chicago institute designed to be a national flagship...
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Will Ex-judge Michael Cook Get 18-month Prison Deal He Bargained For? From the Belleville News-Democrat On Wednesday, former St. Clair County Circuit judge Michael Cook will learn whether he gets the...
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No Deal: Judge Rejects 18-month Sentence For Ex-judge Cook From the Belleville News-Democrat It's back to the drawing board for former St. Clair County Circuit judge Michael Cook after a federal judge...
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Coke-dealing Ex-probation Officer Gets 5 Years; No Blame For Judge's Death From the Belleville News-Democrat Judge Joe Christ begged James Fogarty to get him cocaine on a Friday night before a weekend...
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Does Concealed Carry Have A Domestic Violence Loophole? From the Chicago Tribune Domestic violence has long been a controversial issue in the national debate over gun rights. But until Illinois was...
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Challenge To Campaign Contribution Limits Nixed From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin A federal judge Monday threw out most of the challenges to limits Illinois law places on contributions to political...
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