Courts & Cases

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Democratic state Reps. Maurice West, left, of Rockford, and Carol Ammons, of Urbana, discuss Ammons’ proposal to expand voting by mail in Illinois during a meeting Wednesday of the House Ethics and Elections Committee. – Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock

Illinois proposal calls for expanding vote-by-mail

As the 2024 election season draws near, voters in Illinois will once again choose whether they want to cast their ballots in person or by mail.
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Illinois Supreme Court weighs ‘reenactment’ in toddler murder case

In October 2019, Jessica Logan’s 19-month old son died. Less than two weeks later, police and an investigator from the state’s Department of Child and Family Services met Logan at her Decatur home and gave her a “toddler size mannequin” before telling her to reenact finding the lifeless body of her son in his bed.
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DOJ accuses Apple of illegal smartphone monopoly

The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high.

Trial Notebook

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Court weighs informed consent on alternative treatment options

With no local precedent on an important aspect of informed consent in a malpractice case against an emergency medicine physician, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals looked at “the primary cases” from other jurisdictions on “the duty to inform the patient of alternative treatment options.”

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