Month: September 2020

The Chicago Police recently released seven surveys to the public asking for input on police policies. The topics for surveys are: (1) response to hate crimes, (2) prohibition of sexual misconduct, (3) limited English proficiency/language access, (4) interactions with...

The owner of a chain of nursing homes and the company’s vice president were recently charged with wire fraud and accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme. To read more, click here. Arlo...

The Chicago Tribune recently published a comprehensive report that chronicles Illinois’ nursing homes’ struggle to adequately respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report tells the story of how both residents and staff at nursing homes died as a result of...

The National Law Review recently published an article with statistics showing that fatal car crashes are on the rise in Chicago. Safety experts attribute the rise in crashes to speeding, drunk, driving, and distracted driving. Distracted driving is caused by more...

A federal judge in Washington State recently entered a nationwide injunction in the case of Washington v. Trump. The injunction bars the USPS from any further removal of sorting machines, and from continuing to implement any policy changes that have slowed mail...

Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), which regulate nursing homes, lifted the ban on visitors. CMS had imposed the restriction in March in an effort to control outbreaks of the coronavirus. Many advocates for nursing home residents had...

The Civilian office of Police Accountability (“COPA”) has a self-enforced rule to release videos of shootings within 60 days of a shooting. However, new reporting shows that that is not happening in many cases, and COPA has been slow to release these important videos....

The first step Arlo will take when representing a client that has been involved in a car accident is to thoroughly investigate the facts of the accident and the nature and extent of the client’s injuries.  The next step is to send a demand letter to the at-fault...

Reporting from McHenry County indicates that 86 percent of all COVID-19 related deaths in the County have been residents of nursing homes. The two facilities that saw the most deaths were The Fountains at Crystal Lake and Crystal Pines Rehabilitation and Health Care...

The Block Club Chicago recently published a fascinating and important article about an officer who blew the whistle on her fellow officer’s misconduct, and the retaliation she faced for doing so. The article also examines the stories of other similar officers were...