Gene Davis

Two Cook County lawyers want the nation’s top court to hear a challenge to the Illinois Supreme Court’s orders suspending the state’s speedy-trial law during the pandemic.

A federal appeals panel on Friday questioned whether Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s since-withdrawn restriction on in-person religious gatherings justifies a temporary injunction preventing him from re-instating it.

Jeremy C. Wade’s trial attorney described him as “a hopeless romantic.” But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has another label for the Wisconsin man: criminal.

“I know that there’s a whole bunch of things out there that I want to change in the world. I just have to figure out how to go about doing it.”

The dangers posed by the COVID-19 pandemic call for lawyers in a copyright-infringement dispute to conduct a deposition by remote videoconference rather than in an Arkansas conference room, a federal judge in Chicago held Tuesday.

A boy who made conflicting statements about a police search of his home must sit for a deposition in a civil rights lawsuit his parents filed, a federal judge held.

The owner of a suburban indoor ice rink failed to state an antitrust claim against the organization that governs amateur hockey in Illinois, a federal appeals court held.

Citing Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and a statute that specifies certain protected spaces but not others, an appeals panel reversed a man’s conviction for robbing a train car.