November 4, 2014
Robo-calls Targeted Chicago Election Judges From the Chicago Sun-Times Automated telephone calls to the home phone numbers of thousands of election judges were "a serious attempt to disrupt our...
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Barberis Wins Madison County Circuit Judge Race From the Belleville News-Democrat He’s the second Republican to be elected to the bench in Madison County in a century. St. Jacob lawyer John Barberis, a...
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Close, But Karmeier Likely Wins Retention From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier’s campaign is optimistic he received enough votes Tuesday to stay on the...
View ArticleState Supreme Court Justice Appears To Have Narrow Win In Retention Race
From the Chicago Tribune Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier hadn’t declared victory as of Wednesday, but by the slimmest of margins he appears to have staved off a furious, last-minute...
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Gov.-elect Rauner's Message To Quinn, Legislature: Whoa! From the Chicago Sun-Times In his first news conference since Tuesday’s election, Republican Governor-elect Bruce Rauner had a message for the...
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IL Supreme Court Justice Survives Ballot Attack, But Others Will Be Wary From the Chicago Tribune The most ominous outcome in last week's election: A band of big-bucks civil attorneys almost picked off...
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Mark Kirk Set To Head Senate Veterans Panel From Crain's Chicago Business U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., a big advocate of veterans rights and a major critic of national health care programs for them,...
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Letter: "About Those Votes Against Every Cook County Retention Judge..." From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin On Nov. 5, the day following the Illinois general election, a local newspaper photo featured...
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Residents' Lawsuit Targets Illinois Fracking Rules From the Associated Press A group of Illinois landowners has sued the Department of Natural Resources in a bid to stop the state's new rules for...
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Hinz: Rauner, Top Dems Hold A 'Cordial' Meeting From Crain's Chicago Business Illinois' new Republican governor and the Democratic leaders of the General Assembly held their first post-election meeting...
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Plotting A Hike In Illinois' Minimum Wage From Crain's Chicago Business Wealthy trial lawyers could very well end up being the unsung heroes of Illinois residents who earn only the minimum wage. Why?...
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Judge Leaves Chicago Bar Association Over Peer’s Rating From the Chicago Sun-Times The 1st District Appellate Court’s longest-serving justice has ended his membership in The Chicago Bar Association,...
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United, Orbitz Sue Travel Site Over 'Hidden City' Ticketing From Bloomberg United Airlines Inc. and Orbitz Worldwide LLC sued to prevent the travel website Skiplagged.com from helping consumers buy...
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Obama Sets Immigration Rollout For Tonight From the Wall Street Journal President Barack Obama will lay out sweeping changes to the immigration system in a speech Thursday night, offering new...
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Lawsuit By Nebraska Landowners May Decide Keystone Pipeline’s Fate From the Wall Street Journal For all the angst and anger over the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington, the project’s fate may lie here...
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Illinois Pension Reform Struck Down From Crain's Chicago Business Pension reform is headed sooner rather than later to the Illinois Supreme Court. Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge John Belz ruled...
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Lisa Madigan To Ask Illinois Supreme Court To Consider Pensions From the Associated Press Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the state has a "very strong argument" in favor of its public...
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Rauner: State Budget Full Of ‘Booby Traps,’ ‘Gimmicks’ From the Springfield State Journal-Register For the second time in three weeks, Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner warned Tuesday that the state budget is in...
View ArticleJustice Karmeier: ‘Need To Re-think Judicial Retention Process’
From the Associated Press An Illinois Supreme Court justice who narrowly fended off a million-dollar campaign to deny him retention said Tuesday that the ordeal merits rethinking how judicial elections...
View ArticleJudges, Not Juries, Grant Most Class-Action Payouts
From ATRA's Darren McKinney Satisfied and loyal Toyota customer Jonathan Sourbeer rightly sees the absurdity of the tiny sum he received as a class member, in largely meritless litigation against the...
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