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| | 1: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Justice Garman delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In the summer of 2008, the public defender of Cook County, as petitioner, filed an original action in the Illinois Supreme Court, naming as respondent a circuit judge in the Fourth Municipal District of Cook County. It was alleged that an individual assistant public defender had been repeatedly removed from representing indigent criminal defendants in the judges courtroom and that the judge had made his own appointments of other assistant public defenders to provide the needed representation, thus interfering with the public defenders statutory authority. | | | | Date Created: | 03 19 2009 | | | | Agency ID: | 106678 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000024912 Original UID: 12177 FIRST WORD: Burnette | |
| 2: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 September 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 4-06-0269 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, and Garman concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justice Burke took no part in the decision. Reginald Beacham, an inmate in the Illinois correctional system, filed a complaint for an order of habeas corpus in 2004. The circuit court of Livingston County dismissed it, on the motion of the defendant Director of Corrections. In this decision, that dismissal was affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 09 18 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104176 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036397 Original UID: 17519 FIRST WORD: Beacham | |
| 3: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 January 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 368 Ill. App. 3d 10. JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Fitzgerald, Karmeier and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman and Kilbride took no part in the decision. In 2003, a multiple-vehicle collision involving a tractor-trailer occurred on Interstate 90 in McHenry County, resulting in the deaths of 8 individuals and injuries to 12 others. | | | | Date Created: | 01 25 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 103562 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036599 Original UID: 17711 FIRST WORD: Buenz | |
| 4: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride specially concurred, with opinion. In 2008, this Cook County plaintiff booked a flight on American Airlines. It was cancelled. She did not rebook, but requested a refund of the ticket and of the $40 she had been charged to check her two bags. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110092 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041634 Original UID: 21466 FIRST WORD: Barber | |
| 5: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Kim Mitchell, the defendant in this case, is the debtor on a $75,400 promissory note secured by a mortgage on her home in Chicago. In 2009, approximately four years after she executed the note to Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successor, BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, became the plaintiff in this case by filing a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County to foreclose the mortgage. | | | | Date Created: | 03-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116311 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069069 Original UID: 188217 FIRST WORD: BAC | |
| 6: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. A hearing aid business which is a sole proprietorship owned by an Illinois resident is located in Terre Haute, Indiana. | | | | Date Created: | 05-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116389 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069071 Original UID: 188219 FIRST WORD: Bridgeview | |
| 7: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 September 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This slip-and-fall negligence case comes from Centralia in Marion County. The plaintiff was nearly 80 years old in 2012 when she fell and injured herself in front of an eye clinic which she had visited several times before. | | | | Date Created: | 09-18-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116998 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069141 Original UID: 188273 FIRST WORD: Bruns | |
| 8: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 December 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On November 28, 2012, the North Mac Community Unit School District No. 34, Macoupin, Montgomery and Sangamon Counties, adopted a resolution declaring its intent to issue $2,000,000 in working cash bonds. Plaintiff Carolyn Bettis filed a petition with the school district seeking to submit this proposition to the voters at the upcoming April 9, 2013, election. | | | | Date Created: | 12-18-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 117050 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069142 Original UID: 188274 FIRST WORD: Bettis | |
| 9: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 February 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Employee Classification Act, which became effective in 2008, addresses the practice of misclassifying employees as independent contractors in the construction industry. In this case from Franklin County, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the circuit courts rejection of a businesss facial challenge, on vagueness grounds, to the constitutionality of the Act. | | | | Date Created: | 02-21-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115152 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069198 Original UID: 188196 FIRST WORD: Bartlow | |
| 10: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A will contest is ongoing in the circuit court of McLean County. This appeal involves a discovery dispute within that litigation. The appellant here is attorney Matthew Tibble, who represents the Striegel accounting firm, from which information concerning the estate is sought | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117663 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069529 Original UID: 188430 FIRST WORD: Brunton | |
| 11: | | 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 | |
| 12: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On behalf of a woman who died in 2007 in Jefferson County, a medical malpractice action alleging negligence was filed by her estate in 2009, naming the doctor who is the defendant here and the medical facility at which he had treated the decedent. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 119000 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071460 Original UID: 189438 FIRST WORD: Bowman | |
| 13: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 August 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this case we are called on to consider the continued viability and applicability of ourdecision in Hewitt v. Hewitt, 77 Ill. 2d 49 (1979), which held that Illinois public policy, as setforth in this States statutory prohibition against common-law marriage, precludes unmarriedcohabitants from bringing claims against one another to enforce mutual property rights wherethe rights asserted are rooted in a marriage-like relationship between the parties. | | | | Date Created: | 08-18-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118781 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071646 Original UID: 189633 FIRST WORD: Blumenthal | |
| 14: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 September 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Where attorneys for a worker covered by the Workers Compensation Act (820 ILCS305/1 et seq. (West 2006)) bring a successful action against a third party to recover damagesfor personal injuries sustained by the worker in the course of his employment, thereby enablingthe workers employer to obtain reimbursement of the compensation benefits it is obligated topay under the Workers Compensation Act, the Act requires the employer to pay 25% of thegross amount it obtains in reimbursement as attorney fees, absent other agreement. | | | | Date Created: | 09-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119553 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071653 Original UID: 189638 FIRST WORD: Bayer | |
| 15: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 December 1 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The issue in this appeal is whether plaintiffs, as private citizens, are proper claimants on a statutorily mandated, public official bond issued by RLI Insurance Company (RLI), as surety,to the Madison County Treasurer and Collector under section 3-10003 of the Counties Code(55 ILCS 5/3-10003 (West 2014)) and section 19-40 of the Property Tax Code (35 ILCS 200/19-40 (West 2014)). | | | | Date Created: | 12-01-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 120024 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071662 Original UID: 189647 FIRST WORD: Bueker | |
| 16: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 December 1 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiff, Lynne Beggs, a tenured teacher, was dismissed for cause from her employmentby defendant, the Board of Education of Murphysboro Community Unit School District No.186 (the Board). | | | | Date Created: | 12-01-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 120236 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071664 Original UID: 189649 FIRST WORD: Beggs | |
| 17: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 December 1 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Cook County ordinance obligates county officers to cooperate with investigationsconducted by the Office of the Independent Inspector General (Inspector General) and tocomply with subpoenas issued by the Inspector General. | | | | Date Created: | 12-01-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 120315 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071665 Original UID: 189650 FIRST WORD: Blanchard | |
| 18: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 December 30 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Krohe v. City of Bloomington, 204 Ill. 2d 392 (2003), this court held that the phrase catastrophic injury in section 10(a) of the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act (Benefits Act) (820 ILCS 320/10(a) (West 2008)) is synonymous with an injury resulting in a line-of-duty disability pension under section 4-110 of the Illinois Pension Code (Pension Code) (40 ILCS 5/4-110 (West 2008)). | | | | Date Created: | 12-30-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119889 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071675 Original UID: 189660 FIRST WORD: Bremer | |
| 19: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 March 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiff, Evan Barr, filed suit in the circuit court of Cook County against defendants,Township High School District 211 (District) and Laurel Cunningham, for injuries he sustained during a physical education class at James B. Conant High School (Conant). The lawsuit advanced to a jury trial. | | | | Date Created: | 03-23-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 120751 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071942 Original UID: 189930 FIRST WORD: Barr | |
| 20: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2018 January 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, the Hon. Kathy M. Flanagan, Judge, presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 01-19-2018 | | | | Agency ID: | 120951, 120967, 120986 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000076326 Original UID: 191737 FIRST WORD: Bogenberger | |
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