On or about December 20, 2018, TRS released final regulations implementing the 3% salary increase threshold. While the final regulations did not include many changes from the proposed regulations, the…
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On November 8, 2018, a federal appeals court upheld a trial court’s decision to issue a nationwide injunction against the federal government from rescinding the DACA program. For now, the…
After a two-week trial, a Cook County jury took just two hours to award a former Country Club Hills firefighter $11.2 million in damages for sexual harassment in the work…
On October 11, 2018, an Illinois appellate court in People v. Kahn upheld the conviction of a defendant for making internet threats against a school. Specifically, the defendant posted to…
On July 24, 2018, the Illinois State Board of Education issued a memo to all Superintendents and Special Education Directors in Illinois. The memo relayed an important shift in the…
On August 14, 2018, Governor Rauner signed the Government Severance Pay Act into law (Public Act 100-0895). The new law, which becomes effective on January 1, 2019, provides that severance…
On August 10, 2018, Governor Rauner signed House Bill 5136 into law (Public Act 100-0768). This bill provides that meetings of joint RIF committees required under Section 24-12 of the…
Attorney General Determines That Two-Minute Public Comment is Reasonable and Not in Violation of OMA
Earlier this year, the Attorney General’s Public Access Counsel (PAC), in an informal opinion, confirmed that enforcing a two-minute public comment rule does not violate the Open Meetings Act (OMA)….
On August 1, 2018, Governor Bruce Rauner signed into effect Public Act 100-0660, commonly referred to as “Ashley’s Law.” The law is named after an 11-year old student from a…
HLERK continues to follow the national litigation surrounding accommodating transgender students in the school setting. Most recently, we have followed a case out of the U.S. District Court for the…