Judge James M. Varga presides over jury trials in the Jury Section of the Law Division. He has written chapters and updates for the Law Division Jury Section Bench Book as well as numerous articles.

Where defendant files a pro se notice of appeal without first filing a motion to reconsider, she cannot seek to have the notice of appeal construed as a motion to reconsider.The 3rd District Appellate ...

Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...

CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on ...

The widow of a Chicago police officer cannot sue the city of Chicago over her husband’s death from allegedly contracting COVID-19 while on the job, a federal judge held.

A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois’ assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued an order ...

While an election took place last Tuesday, the Supreme Court began its November oral arguments with four cases, including two on Election Day. One of the cases involved Facebook and the Cambridge ...

Where the state moves for civil forfeiture and establishes a prima facie case that the property is subject to forfeiture, the burden shifts to the claimant to establish that it is not.