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Illinois 1st District Appellate Justice Jesse G. Reyes participates in a candidate forum last month at the Union League Club of Chicago. – Grace Barbic/Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

Jesse G. Reyes makes case he’d lend different voice to high court

Breaking down language barriers and increasing access to justice are at the top of the agenda for 1st District Appellate Court Justice Jesse G. Reyes as he vies for a second time to become the first Latino to serve on the state’s highest court.
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Parade suspect’s father pleads guilty to charges in gun license

The father of a man charged in a deadly Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanors Monday in a case that centered on how his son obtained a gun license.
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Lawyers urge SCOTUS to rule Trump is ineligible to be president

The Supreme Court should declare that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, lawyers leading an effort to keep him off the ballot told the justices on Friday.

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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