Reductions in force are never fun, but sometimes they are necessary. And if done incorrectly, they can lead to costly lawsuits. Hear from trusted attorneys who have seen every RIF…
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Barbara Erickson, Ellen Rothenberg, Cindi DeCola and Jeff Goelitz collaborate with IASPA on “Leave Coordination FMLA and FFCRA” and “What Is to Come In 2021- Personnel/Labor in the Post-COVID World” during the fourteenth IASPA annual conference.
Hodges Loizzi attorneys will discuss the Biden Administration’s possible changes to K-12 schools along with new initiatives that may be put into place over the next year.
On August 23, 2019, Governor Pritzker signed House Bill 3687 into law as Public Act 101-0521. The law amends the Illinois Criminal Code and requires that, upon a school employee’s…
On August 27, 2019, Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1213 into law as Public Act 101-0591. The law amends the School Code. Following the enactment of this law, each school…
In Chicago Tribune Company, LLC v. City of Chicago Office of the Mayor and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Tribune requested information pertaining to public business from Mayor Emanuel’s publicly issued…
In a case successfully defended by HLERK’s Jeff Goelitz, the Illinois Appellate Court recently upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the Better Government Association (“BGA”) alleging that the Illinois…
On April 18, 2016, the Illinois Appellate Court held that the City of Peoria failed to prove that a certain police report was exempt from disclosure under FOIA, thus narrowing…
A federal district court in Chicago has issued a “preliminary injunction” temporarily prohibiting a school board from enforcing a board policy that bars public commenters at school board meetings from…
The Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, recently held in Garlick v. Naperville Township, 2016 IL App (2d) 150381-U, that whether a requester has “reasonable access” to public records on…