Plaintiffs in the class action regarding the judicial election claimed that State Farm used non-profit entities to secretly support Justice Karmeier’s election, allegedly funneling millions of dollars into his campaign.

Illinois Law professor Lesley Wexler considers what options the International Criminal Court (ICC) has in light of harsh criticism by US National Security Advisor John Bolton, and what the ICC’s end game will be. Specifically, Wexler considers three possibilities and the likelihood of each.

The Democrat push involves candidates in every legislative district in the state, a rarity in a state where Republicans hold 75 of 120 seats in the House and 35 of 50 seats in the Senate.

Judging from the initial buzz, Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House (Simon & Schuster, 2018) has all the makings of a publishing blockbuster. Is it a presidency-buster as well? President Trump’s rages against the book suggest that it might be.

"ABA President Bob Carlson is expressing concern about four federal court bills being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives that would 'profoundly affect litigants who seek redress.'"

Asylum-seekers whose children were taken away may get another chance under DOJ settlement.

"The rule of law depends, for its continued vitality, on its personification: an independent, strong, fair and impartial judiciary that serves and protects the legal system and the individual rights of the citizens it serves."

The judge’s order gives the FDA until no later than September 26,2018 to provide an expedited schedule for the publication of proposed graphics warning rules.

Marci A. Hamilton, professor and resident senior fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania, calls upon Congress to dissolve and reconstitute the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics due to their inept handling of child sex abuse within those organizations. Hamilton points out that private organizations have boards of directors who shoulder responsibility for correcting actions of their organizations, but Congress must act when the bad actors are within national governmental bodies (NGBs) such as USOC and USA Gymnastics.

Senators Feinstein and Harris claim that Verizon’s “unlimited data” marketing violates the FCC’s transparency rule, as it led SCFD to believe its Verizon data plan was not subject to any limits on data or throttling.