In a binding opinion, the Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) found that a village violated FOIA by first withholding a “goodbye” email sent by the village’s retiring police chief on his…
Kerry B. Pipal
After being unavailable for the majority of calendar year 2021 due to an April 2021 hacking incident, the Illinois Attorney General’s website containing the required electronic Freedom of Information Act…
In Chicago Sun-Times v. Chicago Transit Authority, an Illinois appellate court found that the Chicago Transit Authority (“CTA”) met its burden to prove that disclosing surveillance footage could reasonably be…
In Valerio v. Moore Landscaping, a group of landscape laborers brought an action for unpaid wages, punitive damages, costs, and attorney fees against a landscaping contractor, in connection with work…
Cindi DeCola, Tina Christofalos, Barb Erickson, Kerry Pipal, and Mary Karagiannis will discuss key Labor/Personnel legislation updates in an upcoming webinar.
An Illinois appellate court ruled that a FOIA request estimated to require CPS to sift through 28,000 pages of documents was not automatically unduly burdensome.
In a non-binding opinion, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that individual discussions between a public employee and board members regarding a proposed agenda item did not violate the OMA because there was no evidence that three or more board members participated in contemporaneous, interactive communication.
The 2021 Leading Lawyers list includes thirteen firm attorneys, while the Emerging Lawyers lists includes four firm attorneys.
In 1400 Wolf Road, LLC v. Pappas, an Illinois appellate court rejected arguments by taxpayers claiming that a school district’s issuance of working cash fund bonds was illegal because the…