Courts & Cases

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Robert E. Crimo III., listens to Judge Victoria A. Rossetti during a case management conference Friday at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan. Crimo, who is a suspect in the July 4 parade mass shooting that left seven people dead in Highland Park, has asked to again be represented by public defenders after firing them last month. – AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, Pool

July 4 parade shooting suspect rehires lawyers after firing them

The man charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in Waukegan asked to again be represented by public defenders after firing them last month and insisting on handling his own case.
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O’Connor called ‘iconic jurist’ as Biden, Roberts speak at funeral

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Arizona rancher’s daughter who became a voice of moderate conservatism as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, was memorialized by President Joe Biden on Tuesday as a pioneer in the legal world who inspired generations of women.
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Justice Cynthia Cobbs aims to continue 1st District appellate tenure

Justice Cynthia Y. Cobbs said she has the “experience that matters” to continue to successfully serve on the 1st District Appellate Court.

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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