Court Rules a Defendant’s Passcodes Are Not Protected Recently the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination do not apply to cell phone passcodes and courts can order a defendant to provide the passcode to...
Wisconsin Court Rules Marijuana Scent Alone Warrants Police Search Recently the Wisconsin Supreme Court narrowly ruled that police officers were justified in conducting a search of a vehicle based on the purported smell of marijuana, overturning a lower courts ruling....
Governor Pritzker Likely to Extending Statute of Limitations for Pandemic Relief Fraud It is widely expected that Illinois Governor Pritzker will sign recently passed legislation that will extend the statute of limitations to bring criminal charges against individuals...
Reliance on Artificial Intelligence Growing Across Industries As ChatGPT grows in popularity, there has been increasing speculation that it will disrupt many white-collar jobs, even replacing workers. There is considerable debate surrounding which industries are at...
Supreme Court Reverses Seventh Circuit Cases Based on State of Mind Standard The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the Seventh Circuit erred in dismissing two separate suits brought under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) by whistleblowers alleging Medicare/Medicaid...
Federal “Felon-in-Possession” Law Violates Second Amendment On June 6, 2023, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the current federal “felon in possession” law (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) violated a Pennsylvania man’s constitutional right to keep and bear arms...
