In Eberhardt v. Village of Tinley Park, the Illinois Appellate Court reviewed a municipality’s ordinance requiring that public comment at special board meetings be germane to items on the agenda.…
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In Shehadeh v. City of Taylorville, a “vexatious litigant” submitted a Freedom of Information Act request seeking all communications between one city’s police chief and another police chief during a two month…
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On March 15th, 2024, the Supreme Court delivered decisions on two cases at the intersection of public officials’ social media accounts and community members’ First Amendment right to access those…
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The Racism-Free Schools Law (P.A. 103-0472) was passed by the Illinois General Assembly in August 2023 and goes into effect August 1, 2024, for the 2024-2025 school year. Policy &…
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On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) published its final rule implementing the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional,…
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In general, the ADA requires that local governments make their services and programs reasonably accessible to people with disabilities. To that end, the United States Department of Justice has issued…
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In B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education, the Fourth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals reversed a federal trial court and upheld the Title IX claim of the Plaintiff;…
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As regular readers of our Extra Mile newsletter know, we at Hodges Loizzi have been carefully monitoring the status of the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed Title IX regulations on sex discrimination.…
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ISBE recently issued its Final Rule governing dispute resolution procedures for students asserting homeless status when seeking to enroll in school. It went into effect on February 5, 2024, and,…
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In a binding opinion, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that the Evanston City Council violated the Open Meetings Act (“OMA”) by approving an exclusive representation agreement with…
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