A federal judge in Springfield allowed a Black professor’s race discrimination and retaliation claims to survive a motion to dismiss, ruling that his allegations of selective audits and tenure denial were sufficient to state a claim, though he must amend...
Randy Flowers, an independent candidate for Congress in Illinois’s 17th District, cannot bypass the state’s signature requirements to appear on the general election ballot.
A federal magistrate judge cleared the way for an electrician to replead dismissed ADA claims by adding facts about his employer's corporate structure.
Katy Kilgore’s employment discrimination lawsuit against the Rock Island County Forest Preserve, which operates the Niabi Zoo, will proceed to trial on claims that the employer failed to accommodate her disability and retaliated against her for requesting...
A federal judge in Illinois has denied qualified immunity to three Colona police officers on claims that they used excessive force during an arrest, allowing a civil rights lawsuit to proceed to trial.
Judge Sara Darrow denied qualified immunity to three Colona, Illinois, police officers on a plaintiff’s excessive force claim, allowing a jury to decide whether they used unreasonable force when handcuffing a concealed carry permit holder who claimed he was...
A Central District of Illinois judge dismissed but allowed replead of constitutional claims against a county sheriff and a private jail healthcare contractor after a detainee died of cardiac arrest following two days of untreated opioid withdrawal.
A federal judge held that a Black probationary faculty member's Title VII claims against Lincoln Land Community College plausibly allege race discrimination and retaliation, but dismissed the First Amended Complaint without prejudice to allow the plaintiff...