A business owner cannot pursue a lawsuit alleging that a retired arson investigator fabricated evidence that led to his arrest for a fire set at his bar, a federal judge ruled.

An Illinois Senate committee hit pause on a bill to ban carbon sequestration injections near aquifers after more than an hour of debate Wednesday.

Where district court erred when it required plaintiff to plead facts connected to specific legal theories to survive motion to dismiss.

For the Defense — one might think that I would cheer two recent results in which justices of the Illinois Appellate Court ruled in favor of defense-aligned parties. But, as always, for everyone but ...

A recent column by Patrick Eckler (“How dispute over venue could open floodgates to litigation,” Oct. 24) paints plaintiffs as shameless forum shoppers who open “floodgates” to more litigation.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz, who has thundered at one prosecutor after another for perceived bias against the president-elect and emphatically ...

Before the sun rose on a cold Wednesday morning in January 2019, Fidel Marquez agreed to a life-altering assignment as a cooperating witness in a criminal case the government was building against his ...

DeKalb Community Unit District 428 must face Title IX claims a minor and her parents brought against it after the girl was allegedly groomed and sexually abused by a student teacher when she was in ...

Where an officer received an injury in the line of duty but unreasonably refuses to undergo treatment, his refusal bars him from both a line-of-duty and a non-duty disability pension.The 3rd District ...