Where plaintiff made a FOIA request, the subject agency is only required to produce extant records, not make new ones.

Where absence of certain evidence on low-quality body camera video was not enough to call into question credibility of officer’s testimony that defendant was involved in a fight prior to arrest.

Patrick Eckler is a partner at Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP representing defendants in civil matters. He is second vice president of the Illinois Defense Counsel and co-host of the Podium and Panel ...

A Cook County jury awarded $9.6 million to a man who was shot and permanently paralyzed by a trespasser in his residential building after he got caught up in an altercation.

A medical clinic must pay $1.36 million to the estate of a woman whom it allegedly overprescribed anticoagulants to the detriment of her health, a state appellate panel ruled.

Former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo never had to appear in a federal courtroom between 2021 and 2022 as he was arraigned on tax evasion charges, later pleaded guilty and was then sentenced to six months ...

A trustee who oversaw the bankruptcy auction of Alex Jones’ Infowars asked a judge on Tuesday to approve The Onion’s winning bid for the conspiracy-filled platform.

The Supreme Court is allowing a class-action lawsuit that accuses Nvidia of misleading investors about its past dependence on ...

I recently had a conversation with my 12-year-old great-nephew, Thelonious (as in Monk). During our chat, “Monk,” as he is called, mentioned that he discovered a podcast on YouTube about existence and ...

Where defendant seeks to suppress evidence via the exclusionary rule, he must show evidence of police misconduct or the exclusionary rule does not apply.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will pay a $15 million penalty as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to four financial advisers who stole millions of dollars of ...

For some lawyers, according to U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole of the Northern District of Illinois, “enough is never enough.” ...