In Peeples v. Clinical Support Options, Inc., a Massachusetts federal district court temporarily granted an employee’s request for telework as a reasonable accommodation due to the employee’s documented moderate asthma….
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In Mancini Law Group, P.C. v. Schaumburg Police Department, an Illinois appellate court ruled that the Schaumburg Police Department did not violate FOIA when it redacted certain personal information about…
Effective November 20, 2020, Governor Pritzker’s Executive Order 2020-73 set forth a Tier 3 Mitigation Order for management of the spread of COVID-19. Significantly, the Tier 3 Order provides that the…
A new disaster proclamation will result in more virtual board of education meetings. In accordance with recent revisions to the Open Meetings Act in P.A. 101-640, during periods in which a public health…
The Illinois Supreme Court is allowing a group of school districts to file an appeal in a case asserting that the State is not funding schools adequately enough to provide…
In Kirilenko-Ison et al. v. Board of Education of Danville (Kentucky) Independent Schools, a federal appellate court held that two school nurses engaged in protected activity under the Americans with…
In a nonbinding opinion, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that the Chicago City Council violated the OMA on three separate occasions by holding conference calls about the…
In a nonbinding opinion, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that the Village of Orland Park improperly denied a FOIA request for the lists of users who had…
Student athletes and their parents filed a class-action lawsuit against the IHSA, seeking a temporary restraining order to immediately overturn the COVID-related postponement of a majority of fall sports, including…
In Manteno Community Unit School District No. 5 v. PTAB, an Illinois appellate court ruled that the PTAB used an incorrect method to value Heritage Woods, a supportive-living facility, for…