In Direct Energy Business, LLC v. City of Harvey, an Illinois appellate court found that a city was not obligated to pay a retail energy provider for unpaid invoices because…
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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…
In City of Bloomington v. Raoul, an Illinois appellate court found that a city council improperly invoked the “probable or imminent” litigation exception under the Open Meetings Act when it…
In Vesey v. Envoy Air, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (which has jurisdiction over Illinois) rejected the employee’s retaliatory discharge and hostile work environment claims…
Since Governor Pritzker issued Executive Order 2021-18 on August 4, 2021, mandating that masks be worn by everyone in P-12 schools regardless of vaccination status, there have been multiple lawsuits…
On July 28, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed House Bill 40 into law as Public Act 102-0172 and House Bill 2748 into law as Public Act 102-0173. The two bills, both effective immediately, extend transition services for eligible students based on when they turned 22 years old. Previously, transition services for eligible students went through age 21, ending the day before the student’s 22nd birthday, regardless of when that date fell during the school year.
On August 20, Governor Pritzker signed Public Act 102-0519, which went into effect immediately. The Act amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL) to provide that a taxing district’s…
On August 13, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 654 (“SB 654”) into law as Public Act 102-0357. The new law is effective immediately and requires public schools to provide…
On August 20, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed into law two bills, Senate Bill 818 and House Bill 24, that update the State’s sex education standards for K-12 schools. The two bills, both effective immediately, set forth new requirements for public school districts that teach sex education.
8/31/21 UPDATE: Today, ISBE pushed out its weekly message that included, among other things, a promise that emergency rules and updated guidance on the vaccine mandate would be forthcoming, and…