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Cook jury awards $5.8M for man’s chemical burns from wet cement
A Cook County jury awarded $5.8 million to a man who sustained severe chemical burns from wet cement after a delivery driver for a cement company allegedly failed to warn him of the dangers of working with it.

By Grace Barbic
Barrett praises lawyers’ collegiality in Chicago address
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told an audience in Chicago that she has been pondering an aspect of the practice of law that sets it apart from other professions.

By Patricia Manson
ARDC: Censure attorney who notarized that dead man signed deed
An attorney who notarized that she witnessed a dead grantor sign a deed should be censured, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission hearing board.

By Emma Oxnevad
Judge partially blocks Mississippi ban on DEI in public schools
A federal judge has blocked portions of Mississippi’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools from being enforced while a lawsuit against it is underway.

By Sophie Bates

AGs seek to block Trump from withholding funding
Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Monday that he has joined a multistate lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding to support crime victims in Illinois due to the state’s policy on immigration.

By Peter Hancock
Governor gives boon to trial lawyers, vetoes treasurer-backed bill
The governor signed 266 laws on Friday, moving closer to finalizing his part in approving — or rejecting — over 430 laws sent to him by lawmakers this spring.

By Andrew Adams
Washington, D.C., sues to stop federal takeover of police
The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department.

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Ashraf Khalil and Alanna Durkin Richer

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