http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/ Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, your legal news and court information resource. Copyright (C) 2008 Law Bulletin Publishing Company en-us Thu, 28,Aug 2008 16:08:273 CDT http://static.lawbulletin.com/images/top_nav_left_new.gif http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/index2.cfm http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/trial/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710658 The Illinois Supreme Court has yet to rule on whether the officers of a corporation that is sliding into insolvency owe a fiduciary duty to creditors of the firm. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710641 A Cook County jury has awarded $22.52 million to the family of a 27-year-old man who died after being struck by a vehicle while working on a state toll highway, according to two attorneys involved in the case. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710642 LAUREL, Miss. Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710643 A federal appeals court has thrown out the conviction of a man who abandoned his plan to hold up a bank after he was spotted outside the building wearing a disguise. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710644 A trucking company's effort to get a refund for taxes it paid on fuel consumed while idling is running on empty. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710645 BOSTON A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710646 WASHINGTON The Justice Department on Thursday was to roll back a controversial set of rules that penalized companies if they insisted on paying employees' legal fees or protecting their confidential communications with corporate lawyers. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710647 WASHINGTON More than a quarter of the U.S. intelligence agencies' employees are outside contractors, hired to fill in gaps in the military and civilian work force, according to a survey of the 16 intelligence agencies. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710648 WASHINGTON The Bush administration is proposing that workplace hazard standards be subject to more public and expert scrutiny before being adopted. Critics say the proposals could make it harder to limit worker exposure to carcinogens and other toxic materials. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710649 WASHINGTON The Justice Department on Wednesday recommended a dramatic reduction in the prison sentence of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who became the key witness against lawmakers and congressional aides he spent years corrupting. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710650 Here are descriptions of some of the cases scheduled for argument before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals next week. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710651 Which of the following families is ''richer''? The first family consists of a wife who has recently become a medical doctor, and she makes $160,000 per year. Her husband is a small business entrepreneur who makes $110,000 per year, giving them a total family income of $270,000 per year. However, they are still paying off the loans the wife took out for medical school and the loans the husband took out to start his business, amounting to debts of $300,000. Their total assets are valued at $450,000; hence, their real net worth or wealth (the difference between gross assets and liabilities) is only $150,000. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/news/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710652 When Joseph R. Biden Jr. stood on the podium in Denver last night as Barack Obama's vice presidential nominee, conservatives of a certain age probably saw a bogeyman who, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, presided over the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/in_the_news/GetTocText.cfm?TOCUID=22710653 http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/in_the_news/GetTocText.cfm?TOCUID=22710654 http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/in_the_news/GetTocText.cfm?TOCUID=22710655 http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/case/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710656 District court correctly held that City of Pekin and Tazewell County were not joint employers with a nonprofit 911 provider for purposes of a lawsuit brought by an employee of the 911 provider brought under provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act because neither the city nor the county exercised any control over the plaintiff's employment. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm of the Central District of Illinois. http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/case/gettoctext.cfm?TOCUID=22710657 District court erroneously suppressed evidence seized during a warrantless search of defendant's home that was based the consent of defendant's wife after defendant had objected and was arrested by the police. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman of the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.