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At The Cook County Record, our mission is to provide thorough coverage of Cook County's legal landscape, empowering you, our readers, to stay informed about public affairs. Cook County's courts are known for their complexity and unique challenges. They have gained a reputation as a hub for mass torts, asbestos lawsuits, and substantial financial awards, earning the label of a “judicial hellhole.” Our aim at The Record is to present a balanced perspective on these issues while offering a space for diverse viewpoints. We want to ensure that everyone can form their own opinions based on the information we provide. We invite your input! If you have thoughts to share, please reach out with your story suggestions, press releases, letters to the editor, or guest articles. We are eager to publish them. We are committed to maintaining fairness and impartiality in our reporting and will strive to keep personal or political biases out of our news coverage. The Record operates under the ownership of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform.
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2 weeks ago |
cookcountyrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk
Chicago City Hall has won clearance from a federal judge to move ahead in Cook County's Democrat-stacked and famously plaintiff-friendly courts with a lawsuit seeking to extract a potentially massive payout from oil and gas companies for allegedly "deceiving" people and businesses into using oil and gas to heat and power their homes, cars, factories and other necessities of modern life. On May 16, U.S. District Judge Franklin U.
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2 weeks ago |
cookcountyrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk
A federal judge has swiped left on a man’s attempt to bring a defamation lawsuit against Facebook and a group of users whom he alleged created a page to share cautionary tales about potential romantic partners. “The realities of modern dating are complicated,” U.S. District Judge Sunil Harjani wrote to open his May 13 opinion dismissing the complaint of Nikko D’Ambrosio.
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3 weeks ago |
cookcountyrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk
The politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union can't escape a lawsuit accusing them of violating their members' rights by refusing to release years' worth of financial audits, allegedly in breach of their own governing rules.
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3 weeks ago |
cookcountyrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk
CHICAGO - A federal judge has shut down, for now, an attempt by O'Reilly's Auto Parts to sue the city of Harvey for ordering their location in the south Chicago suburb closed in an alleged dispute over the store's business license in an attempt to force the auto parts retailer to pay back due property taxes owed by their landlord. On May 14, U.S. District Judge Manish Shah dismissed O'Reilly's federal lawsuit against the city.
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3 weeks ago |
cookcountyrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk
A federal judge has blocked a western Chicago suburb from enforcing an ordinance that bans all Airbnbs and other so-called short term housing rentals, as the judge determined a property owner in the village stood a good chance of prevailing on their claims the ordinance, which would put them out of business, amounts to an unconstitutional government "taking" of their property.
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