DOJ to argue against gun ban
The U.S. Department of Justice will take part in oral arguments in the appeals court challenge of the state’s gun and magazine ban later this month.
The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals approved a motion for Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon to argue against the law, alongside other plaintiffs’ attorneys.
A district judge found the law unconstitutional.
New Illinois chief justice
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced that Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr. will take over for Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis and begin serving a three-year term on Oct. 26.
Neville was appointed to the state’s high court in 2018.
Theis has served as chief justice since 2022, when she replaced Anne M. Burke.
Man sentenced for immigration fraud
A Chicago man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for knowingly providing false verifications of employment for foreign nationals from 2013 to 2019.
Prosecutors say Zhao Tai Cui, 60, charged F-1 visa holders a fee to falsely represent that they were employed by Cui’s company so they could improperly extend their stay in the United States.
Cui was also ordered to pay $652,963.
