On November 6, 2020, an Illinois appellate court reversed a Kane County trial court’s grant of a temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of Governor Pritzker’s Executive Order 2020-61 as…

In a case that caught the attention of the national media, including The Daily Show on Comedy Central, a Rhode Island federal district court judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by…

In Bennett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Tennessee, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (which does not have jurisdiction over Illinois) ruled that a public employee’s termination…

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….

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…

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…

Due to the increasing dependence on remote-work arrangements as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a guidance memorandum to all employers regarding the requirement…

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…

On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The stated purpose of the Executive Order is to discourage the promotion of “race or…

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…