Courts & Cases

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Democratic state Reps. Maurice West, left, of Rockford, and Carol Ammons, of Urbana, discuss Ammons’ proposal to expand voting by mail in Illinois during a meeting Wednesday of the House Ethics and Elections Committee. – Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock

Illinois proposal calls for expanding vote-by-mail

As the 2024 election season draws near, voters in Illinois will once again choose whether they want to cast their ballots in person or by mail.
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Proceeds from sale of Sue the T-rex at center of inheritance dispute

For years, the massive mostly-intact dinosaur skeleton that came to be known as Sue the T-rex and displayed at Chicago’s Field Museum was at the center of a legal battle. The latest dispute involves who inherits what’s left of the money created by the sale of Sue.
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Magistrate judges honored at Dirksen courthouse exhibit

Federal magistrate judges shoulder burdens that otherwise would weigh down their life-tenured colleagues on the federal trial bench, according to Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois.

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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