Courts & Cases

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State Rep. Ryan Spain, R-Peoria, speaks at a news conference on a first floor Capitol stairwell to criticize Democrats’ proposed changes to state election laws. – Capitol News Illinois/Jerry Nowicki

Illinois House Democrats muscle through changes to ballot access

Supermajority Democrats in the Illinois House moved quickly Wednesday to push through a change to state election laws that partially limits ballot access and adds three nonbinding referendums to the 2024 general election ballot.
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Pritzkers donate Lincoln’s Civil War order to Illinois

The document in which Abraham Lincoln set the Union’s military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War in motion is now among Illinois’ prized papers of the 16th president, thanks to a donation by the state’s governor and first lady.
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Auditors can’t locate former St. Louis circuit attorney for state audit

A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed because auditors can’t find former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said Monday.

Trial Notebook

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Judge ponders prudential mootness in case over permits

A federal judge in the District of Columbia looked to a 1990 opinion from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for guidance when considering whether to dismiss several claims against the State of Florida under the “melange of doctrines” referred to as “prudential mootness.”

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