By Eric Geringswald | CSC Illinois LLC Personal Liability An Illinois appellate court affirmed a circuit court's finding that members of an Illinois LLC could not be held personally liable for a money judgment owed by their company because the LLC's...
Carlos Ballesteros, Injustice Watch, Jan. 13, 2022 "Two Illinois counties that detain immigrants in federal custody in their local jails will have to terminate their contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement within weeks, an appeals court ruled...
Office of the Governor, June 21, 2019 "Making good on his promise to make Illinois a welcoming state for all, Governor JB Pritzker signed three pieces of legislation Friday to protect Illinois' immigrant community amid growing attacks from the federal...
NIJC, Aug. 28, 2017 - "Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (R) signed the Illinois TRUST Act (SB 31) into law this morning, enacting the nation’s strongest state-level due process protections for immigrants who fear any interaction with local police could result...
"Democratic Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is set to sign a bill into law that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a three-year state driver’s license, thus allowing the state not only to monitor bad drivers, but also allowing immigrants access to an...
"Salgado is fortunate that private universities like Dominican make a conscious effort to help undocumented students. Merit and private scholarships will cover two-thirds of her tuition. Dominican University President Donna Carroll said it is part of...
"Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed suit against a Waukegan woman for fraudulently posing as a licensed attorney to immigrants seeking help with their status. Madigan said the defendant's illegal practices cheated immigrants out of their ...
Najera-Rodriguez v. Barr "Whether the Xanax possession conviction made Najera-Rodriguez removable depends on whether the Illinois criminal law under which he was convicted, 720 ILCS 570/402(c), is “divisible” for purposes of applying the “modified categorical...
An Illinois county circuit court erred when it confirmed an award of workers’ compensation benefits for an Illinois resident who sustained injuries at her employer’s worksite in Indiana and who completed her employment application in Indiana after reporting...
An Illinois appellate court held that where a temporary staffing agency assigns or loans a worker to a borrowing company, both the “lender” and the “borrower” are immune from tort liability under the exclusive remedy provisions of the Illinois...
A state appellate court affirmed a decision by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission that found it had jurisdiction to consider the injury claim of an operating room nurse hired by an Illinois staffing company who suffered injuries while working in...
Where a university employee tripped and fell as she tried to step over a chain barrier outside the university’s personnel department, where she had intended to turn in her semi-weekly timecard, her injury claim was not compensable, held an Illinois appellate...
Under section 5(b) of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act [820 ILCS 305/5(b)], an employer or insurer who intervenes in a civil action filed by the injured employee against a third-party is only allowed to play a limited role in such litigation, held a...
Overruling Adcock v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n , 2015 IL App (2d) 130884WC, and its progeny, to the extent that those decisions held injuries attributable to common bodily movements or routine everyday activities, such as bending, twisting...
An Illinois appellate court, rendering a decision that is consistent with earlier federal court decisions on the same subject, held that an employee's civil action claim for statutory, liquidated damages against her employer for alleged violations of the state's...