Collecting disability benefits does not always require current incapacitation. If the insured were to face a significant risk of serious illness or death by working, disability benefits are payable, ...

Torts — legal malpractice- Where plaintiff asserts legal malpractice, they must show that but for the legal advice given they would have pursued a different course of action.The 1st District Appellate ...

Wire fraud — railroad disability- Where evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain conviction of wire fraud because amount of income defendant earned from employment was irrelevant to ...

Title VII — retaliation- Where employee was fired for refusal to take unconscious bias training, employee could not show that he had an objectively reasonable belief that training violated the law, as ...

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Judge rules medical marijuana use not protected by ADA- Patricia [email protected] tractor mechanic who was fired for using medical marijuana off the job does not have a claim under ...

Supreme Court will rule on rapid-fire bump stock ban- Mark ShermanAssociated PressWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments ...

Suit alleging job’s vaccine rule violated ADA tossed- Patricia [email protected] woman who alleges Xeris Pharmaceuticals fired her as a sales representative because she refused to ...

Supreme Court avoided disaster when chunk of marble fell- Mark ShermanAssociated PressWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a piece of marble at least 2 feet ...

Neighbors battle over right to trim encroaching tree- If Marie and Peter Adams were to saw off a part of an 80-foot red oak that extends over their property line, it would probably kill the ...

Criminal law — prior acts- Where a defendant does not claim accident or mistake but simply denies the alleged criminal act took place, evidence of prior acts cannot be admitted to show defendant’s ...

Alderman Gardiner can’t bar Facebook critics, must set policy fitting 1st Amendment- Patricia [email protected] Alderman James Gardiner violated the First Amendment when he ...