Federal Court

A Bloomington woman who sued State Farm for wrongful firing, retaliation, and a hostile workplace environment caused by racism has had part of her case restored after a lower court tossed it out.

When Michael McClain retired from lobbying in 2015, he told then-House Speaker Madigan he was “at the bridge with my musket standing with and for the Madigan family.”

Thursday was the final day of a trial challenging the law, passed in response to the 2022 mass shooting in Highland Park.

The first witness called by those challenging the ban was a downstate gun dealer who testified AR-15-style guns are used for self-defense.

A lawsuit filed by seven Illinois State University students against the university has moved to federal court. The Illinois attorney general's office requested a change of venue.

Checks are going out in a $65 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against State Farm Life and Accident Assurance Company. Attorneys had accused State Farm in a federal court in Missouri of overcharging on policies.

A federal judge in Urbana has sentenced a woman from Normal to 8 1/2 years in prison for her part in the shooting death of a Champaign police officer and the wounding of another.

The law aimed to stop the use of deceptive practices to steer patients away from abortion care. A lawsuit argued the law violated free speech.

The lawsuit alleges that the Bloomington-based insurer had not notified customers of an August breach at the time of the court filing. State Farm calls the allegations in the lawsuit "factually and legally baseless."

Isaac Jackson, a former pharmacy technician, was accused of "diverting" 28,000 hydrocodone pills from the medical supply chain to be sold illegally.