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Trying to avoid the one-year deadline for removing a case to federal court based on diversity of citizenship, James Toomsen and Michael Wiarda relied on the exception for cases where the plaintiff “acted in bad faith in order to prevent a defendant from removing the action.”

In 2019 and 2020, Illinois will be observing the semicentennial of the sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention and of its product, the 1970 Illinois Constitution. This is the first of three columns describing how the process of holding the convention and electing members of the convention came about.

Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, with former law clerks, Jane Nitze and David Feder, has written a book, “A Republic, If You Can Keep It.” The title refers to a response from Ben Franklin to a question posited by citizens in Philadelphia following the creation of the U.S. Constitution.

You must admit that it takes chutzpah for a couple of new playwrights to title their first effort at a Broadway musical “Something Rotten!”

“Hustlers” is a heist movie — fast-paced, beautifully photographed and performed by women at the top of their game.

See if you know what happened on this day in Legal History with Karen Conti.

Athletes have been treated as bona fide celebrities for decades with marquee players achieving a similar level of fame as music and acting luminaries. Yet relatively few athletes hit this celebrity stratosphere and, in general, athletes tend to struggle more than other celebrities and influencers to build their own personal brands.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the a U.S. District Court’s dismissal of an antitrust action brought against the NFL and DirecTV for its Sunday Ticket television package on Aug. 13.

An increasing number of U.S. athletes and sponsors are teaming up to embrace hot-button social justice issues and actively court controversy, following the high-profile trail blazed by Nike and former National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

As a midsized venue, Lakeview’s Mercury Theater has been quite successful in presenting musicals with complex and unusual special effects, costuming and characters.

Immersive theater, where a staged production interacts with the audience, is an age-old tradition.

Sept. 11, 2001, much like Dec. 7, 1941, is “a day that shall live in infamy.”