Litigation Partner Karl Barnickol was quoted in the Law360 article "Biggest Illinois Decisions Of 2024." The article examined how the U.S. Supreme Court's narrowing of the federal bribery statute in Snyder v. U.S. reshaped public corruption cases, considerably impacting trials involving former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and other high-profile figures. It also discussed how the Illinois Supreme Court issued rulings favoring defamation plaintiffs, broadening claims and limiting the state's anti-SLAPP statute while providing nursing homes broad pandemic-era immunity under Governor Pritzker's executive orders. Additionally, the article noted that these decisions have dramatically affected Illinois litigation, reshaping bribery prosecutions, defamation law and negligence claims tied to the COVID-19 response.

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