An employee who alleges Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp. required her to answer questions about her family medical history does not have a case under the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act, a ...

Illinoisans who need a notary public can now access those services online through a new “E-Notary” portal launched by the ...

After Starbucks fired seven workers who were trying to unionize their Tennessee store, a U.S. government agency obtained a ...

The Illinois Supreme Court will hear five civil cases in its May term, including weighing in on whether a class action suit that does not allege actual harm has standing in court.

The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.

When one of the plaintiffs in an antitrust case against turkey processors assigned its claim to a third party, the defendants argued the transfer was invalid as “champertous” under Illinois law. But U ...

Where defendant is charged with a criminal offense while on probation, his probation may be revoked and he is not eligible for pretrial release.

Wood was sworn in as the chief judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 1, 2013.The same day, the federal government halted most of its operations as a result of Congress’ failure to ...

An attorney who misappropriated more than $11,300 in trust funds should be suspended for one year, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission hearing board.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said the first rule to set minimum staffing levels at federally funded nursing homes and require that a certain portion of the taxpayer dollars they receive go ...

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that state abortion bans after their sweeping ruling overturning Roe v. Wade violate federal healthcare law, though some also ...