Proposed Rule for Restoring Gun Rights Open for Comments from General Public As we have previously covered, earlier this year the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) had announced that it was transferring the mechanism that adjudicates applications for the restoration of...
Youtuber Confronts Airline Employee at O’Hare International Airport In recent years, a trend of individuals without any ties to law enforcement confronting others who they believe have engaged in or allegedly professed a desire to engage in sexual activity with minors...
324 Charged in Various Schemes Involving $14.6 Billion in Fraud Claims Recently, the Department of Justice announced that under its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, the federal government unveiled charges against 324 individuals, including almost 100 medical...
Supreme Court Upholds Concealed Carry Regulation Recently, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law that governs the issuance of Concealed Carry Licenses (“CCL”) and Firearm Owners Identification Cards (“FOID”), saying that these regulations did not violate the...
The United States Supreme Court just announced an opinion that clarifies what factors a district court judge can consider when weighing sentencing options in response to a violation of supervised release. When district court judges hand out a sentence on the federal...
Government Initiative Expands to Include Downtown Chicago and Transportation The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew S. Boutros, recently announced that the federal government would be expanding the “Project Safe Neighborhoods”...
The use of a so-called “John Doe DNA warrant” has made the news recently after a convict escaped from an Arkansas prison last week. The inmate, former police chief Grant Hardin, plead guilty to a first-degree murder charge in 2017 when his DNA was entered into the...
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) recently announced that they are undergoing a massive review of any inmates who may have recently been effected by an estimated 6,000 false positive tests for the presence of opioids. There were...
6 Tons Recovered from Narco Sub in Columbia Columbian authorities announced that they had successfully recovered over 3,000 kilograms of cocaine that was being smuggled via a “narco sub” off the Pacific coast, with an additional 270 kilograms recovered via drug...
State Appeals to 7th Circuit to Reverse District Court Ruling As we previously covered, a federal district court judge in the Northern District of Illinois had previously ruled that the Illinois statute covering firearms that included a provision that bans anyone,...
