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| | 21: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2009, William Heelan had been a Village of Vernon Hills police officer for approximately 20 years when, in responding to an emergency call, he slipped on ice and fell on his right side, suffering a hip contusion which aggravated preexisting osteoarthritis in his right hip. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118170 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070609 Original UID: 188895 FIRST WORD: Village | |
| 22: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Chicago Zoological Society, the defendant here, does business as Brookfield Zoo on land owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, with which it has a written agreement. In 2012, the zoo was sued for negligence by a woman who claimed that she had sustained injuries when she tripped and fell on one of the zoos paved pathways nearly two years earlier. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118254 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070610 Original UID: 188896 FIRST WORD: OToole | |
| 23: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The named plaintiff is one of the private property owners living adjacent to Crystal Lake South High School in the city of Crystal Lake (the City). Their homes are zoned residential single family under the Citys zoning code, while the school campus constitutes a legal, nonconforming use. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118332, 118369 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070611 Original UID: 188897 FIRST WORD: Gurba | |
| 24: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Rock Island jury convicted this Cordova police sergeant of intimidation for threatening to refuse to respond to certain 911 calls. At his 2012 sentencing hearing, the circuit court imposed two years of probation with conditions, including the requirement that he become current in his court-ordered child support, which was then 3 years in arrears. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118347 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070612 Original UID: 188898 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 25: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On June 3, 2010, in Winnebago County, plaintiff Terry Seymour was being transported in an ambulance when he was injured in a collision with a vehicle driven by Bradley Collins, one of the defendants here. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118432 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070613 Original UID: 188899 FIRST WORD: Seymour | |
| 26: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2014, Peoria police received a report of a vehicle burglary in progress and a description of a suspect. The officer who responded to the scene observed a person matching that description, handcuffed him, and placed him in a squad car. The suspect gave a name which later turned out to be false after he was confronted by the woman with whom he said he was living as his mother. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118569 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070614 Original UID: 188900 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 27: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | James R. Stevens is the first named plaintiff of a group of former minority shareholders of a corporation known as Beeland Management LLC. They claimed that Beelands owner and majority shareholder, as well as Beelands two managers, misappropriated Beelands trademarks and other intellectual property to the detriment of that corporation. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118652 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070615 Original UID: 188901 FIRST WORD: Stevens | |
| 28: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 October 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On April 10, 2007, a rental car owned by Enterprise Leasing Company of Chicago crossed the center line and collided with the vehicle driven by DeShaw Nelson, the injured plaintiff here, whose damages were later determined to be $600,000. Two other claimants, Antoine Ousely and Renardo Page, asserted lesser amounts of damages. | | | | Date Created: | 10-08-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118058 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070673 Original UID: 188972 FIRST WORD: Nelson | |
| 29: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 October 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Will County defendant was successful in winning the dismissal of an indictment charging him with possession of the controlled substance ketamine with intent to deliver. In this decision, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the circuit court had not abused its discretion in so ruling because the defendants substantive due process rights were violated after he entered into a cooperation agreement with Romeoville police that he would not be charged if he assisted in the apprehension of two drug suspects, which he did. | | | | Date Created: | 10-08-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118278 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070674 Original UID: 188973 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 30: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 October 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The sending of multiple unwanted faxes has caused enough trouble to be the subject of both state and federal legislation. In this 2010 Cook County putative class action, plaintiff Ballard RN Center complained of defendant Kohlls Pharmacys unsolicited sending of voluminous faxes selling flu shots. | | | | Date Created: | 10-22-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118644 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070675 Original UID: 188974 FIRST WORD: Ballard | |
| 31: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Class action plaintiffs complaining of cigarettes marketed as lights and lowered tar and nicotine were awarded compensatory and punitive damages totaling $10.1 billion in a 2003 bench trial in the circuit court of Madison County. | | | | Date Created: | 09-04-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117687 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070676 Original UID: 188975 FIRST WORD: Price | |
| 32: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2012 when this juvenile respondent was 13 years old, a quarrel took place between her and her 14-year-old brother over a missing shower cap. Although the brother was apparently the first one to throw a punch, the respondent retrieved a knife from the kitchen and, after forcing her way through a door, inflicted cuts which required 3 stitches on his face and 10 on his arm. | | | | Date Created: | 09-04-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118049 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070677 Original UID: 188976 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 33: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this employees civil suit to recover damages from his employer, the Illinois Supreme Court held that, when an employees injury or disease first manifests itself after expiration of certain time limitations provided by the statutes governing workers compensation and occupational diseases, the employees action is barred by the statutory provisions on exclusive remedy. | | | | Date Created: | 09-04-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118070 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070679 Original UID: 188978 FIRST WORD: Folta | |
| 34: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A nonprofit Chicago condominium association and the elected board of managers which governs it are the plaintiffs in this Cook County civil suit for damages. Several individuals and companies who had a role in the construction of the project were sued. | | | | Date Created: | 09-04-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118139 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070680 Original UID: 188979 FIRST WORD: Henderson | |
| 35: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2010, this DeKalb County juvenile respondent admitted to an allegation of mob action, and in 2012 he admitted to a robbery allegation. He was on probation when he entered a blind plea admitting a 2013 cannabis offense. With this, his probation was revoked, and the circuit court judge sentenced him to indefinite commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice. | | | | Date Created: | 11-04-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118529 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071445 Original UID: 189423 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 36: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County sex offender was convicted in a jury trial of two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault based on separate acts of oral and vaginal contact with the victim in 2009. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116916 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071446 Original UID: 189424 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 37: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In April of 2013, Juan Williams was arrested for possessing a firearm while in an automobile on a public street in Chicago. At the time, he did not have a currently valid Firearm Owners Identification Card. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117470 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071447 Original UID: 189425 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 38: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | After several rounds of DNA testing to determine the paternity of A.A., a Jefferson County child born April 26, 2013, it was revealed that the father was neither the mothers husband nor the appellant here, who had signed a voluntary acknowledgement of paternity before the mother left the hospital after giving birth. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118605 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071448 Original UID: 189426 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 39: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion.In October of 2008, seven firearms were stolen from a home in Will County. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118749 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071449 Original UID: 189427 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 40: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The 2009 bankruptcy of Peoria County developers Carol and Glen Harkins brought about competition among their creditors and resulted in this litigation. Expecting to build a subdivision, they spent between six months and a year negotiating to buy a tract of land from Carol Schenck. A closing on that purchase took place in August of 2008 | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118955 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071450 Original UID: 189428 FIRST WORD: Christopher | |
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