The Illinois Supreme Court published nearly a dozen opinions Thursday, including a ruling on a challenge to the interpretation of the Illinois Citizen Participation Act in a defamation suit against ...

Thursday to vacate Jussie Smollett’s conviction for staging and falsely reporting a homophobic hate crime.The high court’s decision reversed a Cook County jury verdict and a judge’s sentence of ...

The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office is under investigation by the U. S. Department of Justice for civil rights violations, but the probe may go beyond the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey.

A man’s decision to change the beneficiaries of his life insurance policy is enforceable even though the insurer did not receive written notice of his intention until after his death, a federal judge ...

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive ...

Where a defendant seeks to have the jury instructed on contributory negligence, it must raise this claim prior to jury instructions and provide evidence of the alleged contributory negligence.In a non ...

I read with interest Patrick Ekler’s article (“Appeals, trial courts should follow party presentation rule,” Nov. 14) advocating courts to limit their decisions to the issues raised in the parties’ ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has taken very few civil cases of late, but the ones it has taken are monumental. This was seen last week as the state high court heard oral arguments in Petta v. Christie ...