First District Upholds Disqualification of Attorney Representing Son, Splits Decisions on Sanctions and Fees and More
In In re Marriage of Hipes and Lozano, 2025 IL App (1st) 240601, a particularly contentious postjudgment case, the trial court disqualified the husband’s attorney under Rules 3.7 an...
First District Finds Security Deposit Provisions Under Chicago’s Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance (RLTO) Applies Only to Tenants That Provide Security Deposit Funds
Facts
Shearie Harding and Kenneth Turner jointly executed a residential lease with their landlord Meifang Shi for an apartment i...
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Decisions Further Refine Scope of Free Speech Rights for Students and Public Employees
Hedgepeth v. Britton
In Hedgepeth v. Britton, No. 24-1427, 2025 WL 2447077 (7th Cir. Aug. 26, 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the termina...
Second District Appellate Court Reverses Motion To Suppress Evidence, Holding That Emergency Exception to the Fourth Amendment’s Warrant Requirement Applied
In People v. Cummins, 2025 IL App (2d) 230516, the Second District Appellate Court reversed the trial court’s granting of a motion to suppress...
A Legislative Update on Illinois Laws Impacting Schools
Every year, the General Assembly enacts multiple new laws impacting school districts throughout Illinois, and there are a few highlights from the 2025 legislative session that all attorneys should have on their radar as the 2025 – 2026 school ...
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Motions To End Trial
A motion for a directed verdict or a motion to find for the defendant is usually made by the defendant at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence and renewed at the close of all the evidence. If the plaintiff has fai...
Our September 2025 FLASHPOINTS Author Spotlight recognizes Matthew J. Gardner, who most recently served as a contributing author on CONSTRUCTION LAW: TRANSACTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS (IICLE®, 2025). He has also written for previous editions of SCHOOL LAW: ORGANIZATION, FINANCE, AND PROPERTY since 2017.
...First District Affirmed Summary Judgment That Invalidated Special Amendment to Declaration Because It Was Not Correcting Clerical or Scrivener’s Error
Note: The author’s firm represented one of the defendants, the museum, in this action. The museum appeared in the appeal solely for monitoring the ...