Educating workers about their right to opt out of union membership

By Mailee Smith

08/15/2016

National Employee Freedom Week spotlights the ability of all Illinois workers – including state employees – to opt out of unions, and outlines the reforms needed to ensure true worker freedom.

Illinois bill allows courts to ban social media and demand access to accounts for juveniles charged with crimes

By Austin Berg

04/07/2016

Senate Bill 2871 would give courts in Illinois the ability to ban juveniles’ access to social media and require them to turn over passwords to law-enforcement officials.

Illinois politician proposes bill to criminalize filming fights

By Bryant Jackson-Green, Tim Lazar

02/17/2016

A proposal to criminalize recording and posting fights would violate the First Amendment rights of Illinois residents

TAGS: criminal justice reform, First Amendment

Supreme Court to hear arguments on forced union fees

01/11/2016

On Jan. 11, lawyers for the plaintiffs in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that the First Amendment prohibits the government from forcing its employees to pay union fees.

TAGS: Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, unions

How the Liberty Justice Center fought for freedom in 2015

12/29/2015

From challenging the forced unionization of home caregivers and day care providers to suing to stop Chicago from collecting a “Netflix tax,” the Liberty Justice Center has fought for its clients’ constitutional rights and against illegal taxation.

Illinois considers privacy law while the state violates privacy of thousands

12/13/2015

While the state moves to impose costly new requirements on private businesses in the name of privacy, the state is itself violating the privacy of thousands of Illinoisans.

TAGS: privacy

In Friedrichs case, First Amendment freedom must trump federalism

12/04/2015

The states are the laboratories of democracy, but their experiments can’t violate citizens’ constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of association under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Libertarians sue to lift Illinois’ ban on campaign giving by medical marijuana industry

By Mark Fitton

11/24/2015

Plaintiffs ask the court to find the campaign contribution ban unconstitutional and forbid its enforcement.

TAGS: campaign finance

Illinois child care providers sue SEIU for millions in wrongfully withheld union fees

09/28/2015

Illinois child care providers are suing to recoup the dues they were forced to pay to the Service Employees International Union.

TAGS: day care, SEIU: Service Employees International Union

Springfield’s panhandling prohibition struck down as violation of freedom of speech

By Jeffrey Schwab

08/26/2015

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Springfield’s ban on panhandling unconstitutionally discriminated against certain kinds of speech.

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Educating workers about their right to opt out of union membership

Illinois bill allows courts to ban social media and demand access to accounts for juveniles charged with crimes

Illinois politician proposes bill to criminalize filming fights

Supreme Court to hear arguments on forced union fees

How the Liberty Justice Center fought for freedom in 2015

Illinois considers privacy law while the state violates privacy of thousands

In Friedrichs case, First Amendment freedom must trump federalism

Libertarians sue to lift Illinois’ ban on campaign giving by medical marijuana industry

Illinois child care providers sue SEIU for millions in wrongfully withheld union fees

Springfield’s panhandling prohibition struck down as violation of freedom of speech

Fighting poverty with employment: Chicago block clubs

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students