BALTIMORE — Attorneys for the U.S. Naval Academy say the officer training school should be allowed to continue using race as ...

Former 11th Ward Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, who was convicted of filing false tax returns, has been suspended from practicing law for three years by order of the Illinois Supreme Court.

The defendant in a negligence lawsuit related to a car accident cannot obtain a new trial over allegations of an impartial juror, a state appellate panel held.

The former treasurer of a healthcare company cannot pursue claims that its in-house counsel’s alleged negligence led to a $125,000 judgment against him, a state appellate panel held.

Where Indiana’s legislative scheme to restrict ballot access to candidates who submitted signatures totaling 2% of the vote in a recent election did not impose a severe burden on candidates.

Happy belated Constitution Day, celebrated on Sept. 17 each year to recognize the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The document would be submitted to the states for ratification back then, ...

The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in actor Jussie Smollett’s appeal to overturn his conviction on disorderly ...

James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key ...

Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The city of Chicago will pay $11.6 million to an exonerated man who spent 20 years in prison for a wrongful conviction in a 1991 murder resulting from a botched armed robbery.

A federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in their deliberations over whether former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza bribed longtime Illinois House Speaker ...

The Illinois Supreme Court published seven opinions Thursday, including a ruling on a challenge to the constitutionality of a policy related to Firearm Owner’s Identification cards and a quantum ...