Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country’s best known conservative lawyers and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died ...

Former assistant U.S. attorney April M. Perry will join the federal trial bench in Chicago following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of her nomination as a federal judge.

Law enforcement officers did not run afoul of the U.S. Constitution by failing to get a search warrant before continuously recording the activity outside a drug suspect’s home, a federal appeals court ...

The former chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison has spent the last week telling a federal jury how he bent over backward to accommodate hiring requests from former Illinois House ...

A man facing deportation over a decades-old guilty plea for drug possession should have his plea vacated, a state appellate panel ruled.A panel of the 1st District Appellate Court ruled that ...

Where defendant is convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault, the 10-year enhancement for wielding a non-firearm object as a weapon is unconstitutional and void ab initio.The 4th District ...