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Actor Jussie Smollett walks with family members into the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in November 2021 for jury selection at his trial in Chicago. – AP File Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

Illinois Supreme Court to hear Smollett appeal, 10 others

The Illinois Supreme Court agreed to consider actor Jussie Smollett’s appeal of his disorderly conduct conviction for lying about an alleged hate crime, along with accepting five civil Petition for Leave to Appeal dispositions.
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Judge Carolyn Gallagher says ‘well-rounded’ career will help in appellate race

Judge Carolyn J. Gallagher said her decades of litigation practice and experience as a law professor make her “probably better qualified than anybody who’s running for appellate court.”
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Sharon Oden Johnson hones persuasive speaking in improv class

Despite her accomplishments within the judiciary, Justice Sharon Oden Johnson said she sometimes struggles with being shy and reserved.

Trial Notebook

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Judge rejects ‘specific patient rule’ in case over false claims, kickbacks

Two of Allergan’s former sales representatives accused the pharmaceutical manufacturer of violating the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by using a “speaker program” to give physicians illegal payments for prescribing two of its medications — Linzess and Viberzi — but the company insisted the complaint was defective because it didn’t “identify a specific patient to whom a doctor allegedly prescribed Linzess or Viberzi in exchange for a kickback.”

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