Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country’s best known conservative lawyers and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died ...
Former assistant U.S. attorney April M. Perry will join the federal trial bench in Chicago following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of her nomination as a federal judge.
Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...
A former Cook County assistant state’s attorney is not entitled to absolute immunity in a lawsuit alleging he played a role in wrongfully convicting a man for murder.
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would have argued he ...
Two brothers who allege a coroner kept their murdered sister’s skull rather than turning it over with the rest of her remains failed to adequately state a claim for a violation of their right to due ...
Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration.
Where district court did not err in relying on photos from pole camera in defendant’s sentencing hearing because defendant had access to photos for more than two years before hearing.
CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on ...
The widow of a Chicago police officer cannot sue the city of Chicago over her husband’s death from allegedly contracting COVID-19 while on the job, a federal judge held.
The FBI wasted no time giving Fidel Marquez his first assignment after the chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth ...
Had they been any other job applicants, electric utility Commonwealth Edison likely wouldn’t have given a second look to ...