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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country’s best known conservative lawyers and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died ...

Former assistant U.S. attorney April M. Perry will join the federal trial bench in Chicago following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of her nomination as a federal judge.

Illinois will receive a $40 million share of a $1.4 billion bipartisan national settlement with Kroger over the grocery chain ...

Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...

A former Cook County assistant state’s attorney is not entitled to absolute immunity in a lawsuit alleging he played a role in wrongfully convicting a man for murder.