PORTAGE, Ind. — An environmental group that sued a steelmaker in December for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act at its northwestern Indiana facility says the company continues to release excess amounts of chemicals into a Lake Michigan tributary.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday allowed the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual assault.

A Cook County judge granted an emergency request to end delays in filing domestic violence protection orders.

A divided federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit accusing Illinois prison officials of violating the Fourth Amendment when they forced female inmates to spread their genitals during a strip search.

Following up on its statement on racism earlier this summer, the Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission has formed an Equal Justice Rules Committee to study the state’s professional ethics rules.

A federal judge’s email exchanges with former colleagues in the U.S. Attorney’s Office “cast a pall” over certain decisions he made in a criminal case he was handling at the time, an appeals court held.

A federal appeals court greeted the Illinois Republican Party’s challenge to the governor’s limit on public gatherings with skepticism this week.