Category: News

November 29 2021

Lawyer asks judge to block deposition of IL Gov. Pritzker amid discrimination lawsuit vs Pritzker campaign | Cook County Record

A lawyer representing the campaign organization of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has asked a federal judge to block lawyers for a group of former African-American and Latino Pritzker campaign workers from questioning the governor under oath, amid an ongoing court fight over the campaign workers’ claims the Pritzker campaign discriminated against them. The lawyers also […]

November 29 2021

Ex-Lawmaker Annazette Collins Indicted On Tax Evasion | WBEZ Chicago

A federal grand jury named former Democratic lawmaker Annazette Collins, a 10-year member of the Illinois House and two-year state senator, and accused her of underreporting income and failing to file taxes for herself and for a consulting firm she operated. The alleged tax evasion occurred between 2014 and 2016, according to the indictment. Shay […]

December 23 2020

Mia Wright, woman pulled from car, thrown to ground by Chicago police at Brickyard Mall, sues officers and city – ABC7 Chicago

According to the federal lawsuit, Wright’s attorneys list several claims against the city and police, including alleged use of excessive force, and claims officers engaged in a cover-up by arresting and charging Wright with disorderly conduct, charges that were dropped in September. Wright says she’s now blind in that eye, and unable to fulfill her dreams […]

June 9 2020

Two Witnesses To Brickyard Mall Incident Say Police Attacked Them For Filming Officers Who Dragged Two Women From Car – CBS Chicago

Lazendra Collins and Willie Teague said they saw police officers using batons to smash the windows of a car in the Brickyard Mall parking lot on May 31, and drag Mia Wright and Tnika Tate out of the vehicle. Two people who say they witnessed Chicago police dragging two women out of a car outside […]

February 7 2020

New filing: Assertion that Pritzker was never told of racial discrimination in his campaign organization ‘provably false’ | Cook County Record

CHICAGO — Lawyers for a group of volunteers who worked on J.B. Pritzker’s gubernatorial campaign and now are pressing a racial discrimination lawsuit are continuing efforts to get the governor to give sworn testimony about whether he was aware of the conditions giving rise to their claims. Attorneys Shay Allen and Jeanette Samuels, both […]

December 14 2018

Jury awards $1.3 million to family of man fatally shot by Chicago police – Chicago Tribune Copy

A Cook County jury has awarded $1.3 million to family members of a man shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in 2015, according to attorneys for the family. Alfontish Cockerham, 23, died several days after he was shot on June 20, 2015, following a foot chase in the 7000 block of South Merrill […]

December 14 2018

Jury awards $1.3 million to family of man fatally shot by Chicago police – Chicago Tribune

November 19 2018

Simeon Career Academy Attorney Shay Allen: Adults came in and robbed [Simeon] students of an opportunity | WGN Radio 720

Shay Allen is the attorney representing the parents of the Simeon Alumni Association in its lawsuit against Nazareth Academy. He joins John Williams to break down what happened at the football game last weekend that led to that lawsuit. One IHSA official calls in, supporting Simeon. Source: Simeon Career Academy Attorney Shay Allen: Adults came […]

May 16 2017

Man Says Chicago Police Cost Him His Future | Courthouse News Service

An Illinois man claims his life was ruined by Chicago police when officers, despite having no evidence he was guilty, charged him with a felony while he was a high school student with a full-ride scholarship to Cal-Berkeley. John Adam Jones of Chicago, now 20, says in a complaint filed Friday in Chicago federal court that he […]

August 18 2016

Why law firms are finding the disclosure hurdle too high to leap

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