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Thomas L. Kirsch II

Illinois ban on sex offenders’ phone contact with their children tossed

Activists demonstrate Monday at the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill as the justices consider a challenge to rulings that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.

Ghost guns, outdoor sleeping bans reach U.S. Supreme Court

House votes for possible countrywide TikTok ban

Candace Jackson-Akiwumi

7th Circuit tosses retaliation suit against South Suburban College

Ramon Ocasio III

Appellate panel affirms $770,000 judgment against railroad

State Rep. Anna Moeller (right), D-Elgin, speaks on the House floor during debate on her bill to enact several reforms to the state’s insurance industry. The bill is an initiative of Gov. JB Pritzker, who is seated behind Moeller. The measure passed with bipartisan support.

Pritzker’s health insurance reforms clear House

Senate advances bill to ban food additives linked to health problems

‘Willful’ misconduct by attorney brings no duty to defend

By Calvin Woodward Associated Press writer

Trial Notebook

By Steven P. Garmisa

Hoey & Farina

Posted August 7, 2018 1:26 PM

The 4th District Appellate Court recently held that allegations of “willful” misconduct by an attorney serving as co-trustee of a trust negated the duty to defend by the attorney’s professional liability carrier.The attorney, G. Timothy Leighton and his law firm, Leighton Legal Group LLC in Bloomington, were represented by Kelly Law Offices P.C. in Bloomington. Pretzel & Stouffer Chtd. represented the Illinois State Bar Association Mutual Insurance Co. The case is Illinois State Bar Association Mutual …

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Activists demonstrate Monday at the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill as the justices consider a challenge to rulings that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.

Ghost guns, outdoor sleeping bans reach U.S. Supreme Court

State Rep. Anna Moeller (right), D-Elgin, speaks on the House floor during debate on her bill to enact several reforms to the state’s insurance industry. The bill is an initiative of Gov. JB Pritzker, who is seated behind Moeller. The measure passed with bipartisan support.

Pritzker’s health insurance reforms clear House

Boeing quality engineer Sam Salehpour, from left, Ed Pierson, executive director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former Boeing engineer; Joe Jacobsen, aerospace engineer and technical adviser to the Foundation for Aviation Safety; and Shawn Pruchnicki, professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, are sworn in before a Senate committee Wednesday. AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

Boeing put under Senate scrutiny over safety culture

The Supreme Court unanimously revived a sex discrimination lawsuit Wednesday filed by a St. Louis police sergeant after she was forcibly transferred, making it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims.

Ruling eases way to sue for job bias in forced transfers

Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was back on the bench Tuesday after an unexplained one-day absence. He joined the other justices in questioning whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

SCOTUS questions obstruction charges against Jan. 6 rioters, Trump