Jonathan Bilyk

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois will have a new state Supreme Court justice at the end of January, after Justice Mary Jane Theis announced her sudden retirement from the court. Theis' announcement came Monday, a little more than three years into her current 10-yea... See more

CHICAGO - After enacting state laws forbidding local police from cooperating with federal immigration efforts, and after winning a court case blocking President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard in support of immigration enforcement in the st... See more

CHICAGO - Reforms to Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law appears to have doled out some relief in 2025 to employers and other businesses targeted by what had been an ever-mounting blitz of big money class actions under the controversial law, accord... See more

SAN FRANCISCO - A landmark ruling blocking the state of California from enforcing laws and policies which a federal judge said trampled the rights rights of parents to not be kept in the dark by public school teachers and administrators if their children ... See more

SAN FRANCISCO - A California state appeals court says fuel producer Citgo can't escape, after all, from the lawsuit launched by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, along with three northern California counties, accusing the oil industry of allegedly ... See more