Grace Barbic
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Reporter @CDLB | Former @CapitolNewsIL, @pjstar, @The_Vidette, @TV10News, @wznd | Alumni @IllinoisStateU ‘20 • @UISPAR ‘21
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Aunt Millie's Bakeries mourns the passing of President John F. Popp
By GRACE BARBIC gbarbic@lawbulletinmedia.com A suit accusing the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts of violating the First Amendment by restricting public access to certain Rule 23 orders belongs in state court, a federal judge ruled. A group of plaintiffs failed in its efforts to sue the administrative and operational arm of the Illinois Supreme Court when a federal judge abstained from ruling on the issue.
A love letter to libraries in Canberra
Canberra has physical local libraries ready to use every day of the week (yep, even Sundays). Here’s why we love them. Ask any bookworm what the ultimate gift in the world is, and the answer will probably come back to owning a personal library like Belle’s in Beauty and the Beast. Books lining the walls that can only be reached via a ladder, ideally one on wheels that slides along the stacked shelves.
IMPACT: Panel nixes FOIA bid against FBI
Published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on July 22, 2025 By GRACE BARBIC gbarbic@lawbulletinmedia.com A former attorney attempting to prove he was a confidential informant for the FBI lost a bid to obtain hundreds of pages of 20-year-old documents from the federal agency under the Freedom of Information Act. Joel A. Brodsky is a former lawyer well known for his representation of Drew Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant convicted of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
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