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A man buys time from a Chicago parking meter kiosk on Chicago's North Side in 2013. Among Clinton Krislov’s cases was fighting the expensive and unpopular deal privatizing the city’s parking meters, arguing that the contract was an illegal lease that ran afoul of a provision in the Illinois Constitution. The appellate court held the deal constitutional in 2014. – AP File Photo/M. Spencer Green

Clinton Krislov, 74, recalled as ‘for the regular Joe’

Attorney and frequent political candidate Clinton A. Krislov brought in huge monetary settlements and awards over decades of practice.
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Supreme Court appears to side with Starbucks in dispute with NLRB

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to side with Starbucks Tuesday in a case that could make it harder for the federal government to seek injunctions when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns.
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High court upholds law limiting where child sex offenders can live

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a state law restricting where previously convicted child sex offenders can live is constitutional, although it left open the possibility that it was improperly applied to one individual.

Trial Notebook

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Judge rejects ‘specific patient rule’ in case over false claims, kickbacks

Two of Allergan’s former sales representatives accused the pharmaceutical manufacturer of violating the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by using a “speaker program” to give physicians illegal payments for prescribing two of its medications — Linzess and Viberzi — but the company insisted the complaint was defective because it didn’t “identify a specific patient to whom a doctor allegedly prescribed Linzess or Viberzi in exchange for a kickback.”

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