Courts & Cases

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Security fences surround the Illinois Department of Corrections’ Logan Correctional Center, Nov. 18, 2016, in Lincoln. Illinois officials have awarded a $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company that’s been used for years, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits and widespread accusations of substandard care. – AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File

Illinois awards $4B contract to private prison health care company accused of substandard care

Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it’s used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the firm and statewide complaints alleging substandard care.
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Cook County state’s attorney race too close to call

The open race to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office was too close to call Wednesday after a heated primary campaign in the Chicago area.
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Mariyana Spyropoulos says she’d be change agent as court clerk

After more than a decade as a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board, Mariyana Spyropoulos is hopeful that she will be making a job title change to clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Trial Notebook

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Court weighs informed consent on alternative treatment options

With no local precedent on an important aspect of informed consent in a malpractice case against an emergency medicine physician, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals looked at “the primary cases” from other jurisdictions on “the duty to inform the patient of alternative treatment options.”

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