The Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear five civil cases in its latest Petition for Leave to Appeal dispositions, including one in which a transgender woman was denied access to the women’s bathroom at her workplace, an East Aurora Hobby Lobby store.

A Catholic driver challenging a requirement that people wear masks in rideshare vehicles is not entitled to an injunction barring its enforcement while his lawsuit is pending, a federal judge held.

An Illinois appellate panel remanded the case of a man who alleged he was fired from his job because of a physical disability.

A 2018 candidate for Cook County Assessor who was disqualified during the race and then reinstated does not have a case against city and county election officials for violating her rights, a federal judge held.

A federal appeals court held Monday that it lacks jurisdiction to consider whether qualified immunity shields a DuPage County sheriff’s deputy from a lawsuit filed by the estate of a 17-year-old he shot to death.

The head of Chicago’s largest police union officially submitted his paperwork to retire from the police department on Tuesday, after saying he would rather leave the force than go through with a disciplinary hearing that he called a “farce.”

A state appellate panel ruled that Seiden Law Group P.C. can seek $98,000 in fees from Joy Segal for work it did seeking to recover assets seized after her former husband, Michael “Mickey” Segal, was convicted of racketeering.

A Peoria County jury awarded $7 million to the family of a woman who was killed in a crash involving a milk delivery truck driver who was under the influence of cannabis.