Local Government Law Bulletin

Employee’s Critical Comments about City-Employer Not Protected Speech

June 18, 2015

Turner v. City of San Francisco: A temporary employee was terminated after he repeatedly voiced criticisms about the City of...

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IDOL Releases New Interpretation to the Prevailing Wage Act

June 18, 2015

Recently, the Illinois Department of Labor released a new interpretation to Illinois’s Prevailing Wage Act. Specifically, this new interpretation concerns...

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Recent Case Expands Municipalities’ Power to Accept Dedicated Lands

June 4, 2015

Recently, an Illinois appellate court held in favor of a village when the lender of a failed development attempted to foreclose...

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Proposed Bill Would Change FOIA Requirements for Police Body Cameras

June 4, 2015

Currently, a bill sits before Governor Rauner that would establish criteria for police body cameras. While the bill does not...

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Appellate Court Calls into Question Administrative Impound Fees

May 22, 2015

The Fifth District Appellate Court in Carter v. City of Alton addressed a challenge to the administrative fees assessed by...

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New Case Further Highlights Illinois’s Tort Immunity Act

May 20, 2015

Recently, an Illinois appellate court determined that a local government was protected from liability under the Tort Immunity Act where...

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Village of Palatine’s Disclosure of Personal Information Held to Be Permissible

May 6, 2015

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the District Court’s judgment in favor of the Village of Palatine in...

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Rodriguez v. United States: The Supreme Court Keeps the Fourth Amendment from “Going to the Dogs”

May 6, 2015

Last week, the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether police officers may detain a driver of a...

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Schlossberg Appointed to ISBA Local Government Role

April 27, 2015

In early April, Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle attorney Ruth Alderman Schlossberg was appointed to a prominent post in the...

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Seminar for Local Government Officials

April 22, 2015

On May 20, 2015, the McHenry County Council of Governments in association with Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle will be...

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Informal Approval of Settlement Agreement by City Council Is Unenforceable

April 22, 2015

An appellate court, in Meade v. City of Rockford, recently held that a settlement agreement, informally approved by a city council,...

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Local Government Consolidation and Unfunded Mandates Task Force Under Way

April 9, 2015

The members of the Local Government Consolidation and Unfunded Mandates Task Force (“Task Force”) were selected and began meeting last...

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