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| | 481: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2011, a Chicago man who was parking his vehicle in his garage was accosted by two individuals who took it from him. One of them was alleged to be this defendant, who was identified by the victim in a lineup and in open court. The victim testified that Fred Clark held a 9-millimeter Ruger handgun to his head and also struck him on the head with it. | | | | Date Created: | 03-24-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118845 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071500 Original UID: 189481 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 482: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A warrantless dog sniff for marijuana at an apartment door was found to violate the fourth amendment in this Champaign County case. The defendant lived on the third floor of a 12-unit apartment building in Urbana. | | | | Date Created: | 03-24-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118973 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071633 Original UID: 189620 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 483: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Because this case has a lengthy history leading to the instant action, some of whichoverlaps with this case, we will set forth the background in some detail. On June 28, 2005,plaintiff was employed as a police officer for defendants police department. | | | | Date Created: | 03-24-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119181 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071634 Original UID: 189621 FIRST WORD: Vaughn | |
| 484: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The question presented in this consolidated appeal is whether Public Act 98-641 (eff. June9, 2014) (Act), which amends the Illinois Pension Code as it pertains to certain pension funds for employees of the city of Chicago, violates the pension protection clause of the Illinois Constitution. Ill. Const. 1970, art. XIII, 5. | | | | Date Created: | 03-24-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119618 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071635 Original UID: 189622 FIRST WORD: Jones | |
| 485: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 May 5 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Chicago Transit Authority is a municipal corporation whose retirementplan is established in the Pension Code. Its employee unions had a collective bargaining agreement which began in 2004 and was to expire at the end of 2006. | | | | Date Created: | 05-05-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 117638 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071636 Original UID: 189623 FIRST WORD: Matthews | |
| 486: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 May 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In January 1999, defendant was indicted for various offenses arising out of an incident inwhich he allegedly entered a residence, inflicted bodily harm on its occupants, Gus and Eunice Pakosta, and took certain property. | | | | Date Created: | 05-19-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118672 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071637 Original UID: 189624 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 487: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 May 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County appeal arises from a post conviction proceeding. Jesus Cotto was previously convicted of armed robbery, for which he received a natural life sentence in 2008 as a habitual offender. | | | | Date Created: | 05-19-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119006 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071638 Original UID: 189625 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 488: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 May 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2002, respondent James Grant was committed to the Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act. In 2012, he filed an application in the circuit court of Johnson County, seeking a determination that he was no longer sexually dangerous. | | | | Date Created: | 05-19-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119162 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071639 Original UID: 189626 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 489: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 May 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A doctor whose privileges to practice at a hospital were revoked by hospital management sought to recover civil damages, but his 2007 lawsuit was rejected by the circuit court of Cook County, the appellate court, and by the Illinois Supreme Court in this decision. | | | | Date Created: | 05-19-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119220 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071640 Original UID: 189627 FIRST WORD: Valfer | |
| 490: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Statute makes it unlawful for a person to knowingly possess a firearm if he hasbeen convicted of a felony under the laws of this State or any other jurisdiction. | | | | Date Created: | 06-16-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 117424 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071641 Original UID: 189628 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 491: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This is a direct appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court from a holding of statutoryunconstitutionality entered in the circuit court of Cook County. In 2013, Illinois StatePolice observed this defendant driving 100 miles per hour on a Chicago portion of theKennedy Expressway that was posted for 55 miles per hour. | | | | Date Created: | 06-16-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118599 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071642 Original UID: 189629 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 492: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Quad City International Airport consists of real estate and improvements thereon, owned by the Metropolitan Airport Authority of Rock Island County, one of a total of 20 airport authorities in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 06-16-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119704 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071643 Original UID: 189630 FIRST WORD: Moline | |
| 493: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 July 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | After heavy rainfall in July 2010 in Cook County, there was flooding in the villages of Bellwood, Hillside and Westchester, where defendant Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago is responsible for stormwater management. Jenice Hampton is the lead plaintiff of a class of property owners and residents who filed suit to recover from the defendant concerning the flooding. | | | | Date Created: | 07-08-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119861 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071644 Original UID: 189631 FIRST WORD: Hampton | |
| 494: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 July 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2014, Troy police stopped this defendant for speeding and issued him a ticket. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 552 requires that portions of such a traffic citation be transmitted to the clerk of the circuit court within 48 hours of issuance. Geilers citation did not reach the clerk of the circuit court of Madison County until four days later. | | | | Date Created: | 07-08-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119095 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071645 Original UID: 189632 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 495: | | 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 | |
| 496: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 August 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This case addresses the question of whether the circuit court erroneously held that theredistricting initiative petition submitted by Support Independent Maps (Independent Maps)failed to comply with the requirements of article XIV, section 3, of our constitution. | | | | Date Created: | 08-25-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 121077 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071647 Original UID: 189634 FIRST WORD: Hooker | |
| 497: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 September 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiffs filed a complaint at law alleging multiple counts of medical negligence and lossof consortium against defendants. Defendants filed a motion requesting a 12-person jury andseeking a declaration that Public Act 98-1132 (eff. June 1, 2015) (Act) is unconstitutional.Public Act 98-1132 limits the | | | | Date Created: | 09-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 120377 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071648 Original UID: 189635 FIRST WORD: Kakos | |
| 498: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 September 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Following a jury trial in the circuit court of St. Clair County, defendant, James Cherry, wasfound guilty of one count of armed violence (720 ILCS 5/33A-2(b) (West 2010)) and onecount of aggravated battery with a firearm. | | | | Date Created: | 09-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118728 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071649 Original UID: 189636 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 499: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 September 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The defendant, Zachary A. Reyes, was charged by indictment in the circuit court of Kendall County with the first degree murder of Jason Ventura and the attempted murders ofEduardo Gaytan and Jorge Ruiz. | | | | Date Created: | 09-22-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 119271 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071652 Original UID: 189637 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 500: | | 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 | |
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