WASHINGTON — 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 ...

Law enforcement officers did not run afoul of the U.S. Constitution by failing to get a search warrant before continuously recording the activity outside a drug suspect’s home, a federal appeals court ...

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.She is currently senior ...

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

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.

Two brothers who allege a coroner kept their murdered sister’s skull rather than turning it over with the rest of her remains failed to adequately state a claim for a violation of their right to due ...

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

Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration.

Where district court did not err in relying on photos from pole camera in defendant’s sentencing hearing because defendant had access to photos for more than two years before hearing.

A man facing deportation over a decades-old guilty plea for drug possession should have his plea vacated, a state appellate panel ruled.A panel of the 1st District Appellate Court ruled that ...

Where defendant is convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault, the 10-year enhancement for wielding a non-firearm object as a weapon is unconstitutional and void ab initio.The 4th District ...

The former chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison has spent the last week telling a federal jury how he bent over backward to accommodate hiring requests from former Illinois House ...