New law Chicago is using to sue Glock being challenged in state, federal courts – Center Square

Last year, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law that allows lawsuits against the firearms industry for a variety of reasons. In federal court last year, the National Shooting Sports Foundation sued over the firearms industry liability law. That lawsuit is pending. Separately in Madison County, Piasa Armory sued. That case also involves a challenge to the state law that limits where people can sue the state. A Madison County judge recently found limiting where people can sue the state is unconstitutional.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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