Mealey's (June 8, 2022, 11:46 AM EDT) -- ROCKFORD, Ill. — A federal judge in Illinois on June 7 approved a consent decree between the United States and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) in a Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) dispute; the approval came one day after the parties stated that they would not request recusal despite the judge revealing that he knows one of the people involved in the case well enough to “know the name of her current dog and the name of her former cat.”...