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| | 421: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2012, in Cahokia, a 14-month-old infant died of head injuries after being left in the company of other children, including this juvenile respondent, who was nine years old at the time. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117341 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070497 Original UID: 188768 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 422: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2005, this 17-year-old defendant entered an open guilty plea to attempted first degree murder and home invasion. His 2007 motion to withdraw his plea as not knowing and voluntary because of counsels allegedly deficient advice and representation was denied. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117695 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070498 Original UID: 188769 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 423: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This dispute arises from the logging of timberland in Warren County. The plaintiff is the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District. Among the defendants are Steve Walters, an Iowa timber buyer and Robert ODell, an Iowa logger. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117783 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070499 Original UID: 188770 FIRST WORD: Warren | |
| 424: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The defendant in this Lake County wrongful death suit is DeBruler Company, the agent for a Park City development known as Colonial Park Apartments. The plaintiff is Maria Turcios, the special administrator of the estate of her late husband Nelsyn Caceras, who died June 15, 2011. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117962 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070500 Original UID: 188771 FIRST WORD: Turcios | |
| 425: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Health care liens are regulated by statute. In this Jackson County case, the supreme court held that, where an injury victim who had settled her circuit court claim filed a petition to adjudicate liens and the only health care lien at issue was that of the treating hospital, the Health Care Services Lien Act did not permit the deduction of attorney fees and costs of litigation prior to calculating the amount to be paid to the health care lienholder. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118143 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070501 Original UID: 188772 FIRST WORD: McVey | |
| 426: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The circuit court of Du Page County found the clause violated defendants equal protection rights and declared it unconstitutional as applied to him. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118255 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070502 Original UID: 188773 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 427: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 June 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this Sangamon County case, a wife filed for divorce in 2012 after 20 years of marriage. This dispute concerns the division of property. Both parties are still working. The respondent husband works for the Springfield Police Department and is part of its pension system in lieu of Social Security. | | | | Date Created: | 06-18-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117876 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070503 Original UID: 188774 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 428: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 June 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The defendant sought review in the appellate court and there, for the first time, alleged that the trial court had committed plain error by erroneously defining reasonable doubt in response to an inquiry from the jury. The appellate court ordered a new trial, but the Illinois Supreme Court did not agree with what the appellate court had done. | | | | Date Created: | 06-18-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117934 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070504 Original UID: 188775 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 429: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 June 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This appeal is concerned with discovery in a defamation case. At the time the statement at issue was posted on the internet, the Sandusky sexual abuse scandal had dominated the national news for weeks. | | | | Date Created: | 06-18-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118000 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070505 Original UID: 188776 FIRST WORD: Hadley | |
| 430: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Foreclosure Prevention Program has been established by the Illinois Housing Development Act. It is funded by a Code of Civil Procedure provision imposing a $50 filing fee in residential mortgage foreclosure cases, 2% of which is retained by the clerk of the circuit court in which the foreclosure action is filed. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117138 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070506 Original UID: 188777 FIRST WORD: Walker | |
| 431: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2012, plaintiff motorist attempted to make a U-turn from a left turn lane on northbound Kirk Road in Geneva and collided with an oncoming motor bike which was carrying a passenger. The motorcyclist incurred substantial injuries and the passenger died as a result. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117170 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070507 Original UID: 188778 FIRST WORD: McElwain | |
| 432: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2012, this 23-year-old defendant, who was certified to teach grades 6 through 12, could substitute teach for grades kindergarten through 12, and had been teaching part-time at two schools was indicted in the circuit court of Cook County for criminal acts committed when he was 14 or 15 years old. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117669 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070596 Original UID: 188880 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 433: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This is an appeal from the dismissal of a counterclaim in an action to foreclose a reverse mortgage. Mary Muraida held title to her condominium unit in Oak Lawn pursuant to a 1991 land trust as to which defendant-appellant Standard Bank and Trust was trustee. On July 9, 2009, she entered into a reverse mortgage on the unit. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117950 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070597 Original UID: 188881 FIRST WORD: Financial | |
| 434: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This environmental litigation concerns Scott Air Force Base in St. Clair County. Plaintiff Lake Environmental, Inc., had engaged in asbestos cleanup work at the base. Its dispute with the Department of Public Health and its director, the defendants here, began in 2008, when the Department claimed that its regulations had been violated by plaintiffs cleanup efforts at the base. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118110 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070598 Original UID: 188882 FIRST WORD: Lake | |
| 435: | | 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 | |
| 436: | | 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 | |
| 437: | | 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 | |
| 438: | | 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 | |
| 439: | | 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 | |
| 440: | | 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 | |
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