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| | | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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Volume/Number: | 2008 September 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 4-06-0269 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23).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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2019 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District; heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean County, the Hon. Richard L. Broch, Judge, presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2019 | | | | Agency ID: | 122654 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000089411 Original UID: 200492 FIRST WORD: Beaman | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 381 Ill. App. 3d 701. 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. | | | | Date Created: | 05 21 2009 | | | | Agency ID: | 106680 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000024960 Original UID: 12201 FIRST WORD: Beelman | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 May 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Justice Karmier delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. This civil suit is before the supreme court pursuant to the dismissal of a complaint. No trial has occurred. In October of 2006, 18-year-old Daniel Bell was killed when he drove his vehicle into a tree in Deerfield. It was alleged that he was intoxicated. | | | | Date Created: | 05 19 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110724 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000044798 Original UID: 24267 FIRST WORD: Bell | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 May 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this appeal, the primary issue we are asked to consider is whether the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), which governs and coordinates interscholastic athletic competitions for public and private secondary schools in Illinois, is a public body as defined by the Freedom of Information Act. | | | | Date Created: | 05-18-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 121124 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071947 Original UID: 189935 FIRST WORD: Better | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This action to recover damages for the tort of intentional interference with a testamentary expectancy was filed in the circuit court of Cook County. The decedent, Frank Dama, died in 2009. Plaintiff Colleen Bjork had been a hospice worker for decedents late wife, while the defendant, Frank OMeara, had been the decedents dentist. Neither is related to decedent. | | | | Date Created: | 01-25-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114044 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063738 Original UID: 182088 FIRST WORD: Bjork | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 October 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 373 Ill. App. 3d 563. JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman specially concurred, with opinion. There is a federal statute which prohibits the transfer of students from one school to anther so as to increase racial segregation. | | | | Date Created: | 10 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105018 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036255 Original UID: 17351 FIRST WORD: Board | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 May 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE THEIS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Auburn and Divernon are small towns in Sangamon County, southwest of Springfield. Prior to 2007, the Auburn school district was located entirely within Sangamon County. | | | | Date Created: | 05 19 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110395, 110422 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000044492 Original UID: 23997 FIRST WORD: Board | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 October 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Board of Education of Peoria School District No. 150 employs 26 full-time and part-time individuals who work as security agents and guards. No other school district in Illinois has this type of employee. Pursuant to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, these employees were represented by a union certified by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board since 1989. The last collective-bargaining agreement pursuant to this certification expired June 30, 2010. | | | | Date Created: | 10-18-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114853 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064979 Original UID: 182963 FIRST WORD: Board | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 November 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Madison County, a company known as WRB owns the Wood River Petroleum Refinery. Hoping to secure preferential tax assessments under the Property Tax Code, WRB applied to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to have several newly made renovations at the refinery certified as pollution control facilities. Ultimately, on that agencys recommendation, the Pollution Control Board granted the requested certifications as to 28 separate facilities. | | | | Date Created: | 11-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 115473 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064895 Original UID: 182895 FIRST WORD: Board | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 January 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On administrative review, the circuit court of Sangamon County reversed the Attorney Generals binding opinion finding violations of the Open Meetings Act (Act) (5 ILCS 120/1et seq. (West 2012)). | | | | Date Created: | 01-20-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 120343 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071930 Original UID: 189918 FIRST WORD: Board | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | At the end of the 2009-2010 school year, the Chicago Board of Education began a policy of designating as ineligible for rehire nonrenewed probationary appointed teachers (PATs) who had been nonrenewed twice, or who had been given an unsatisfactory performance rating. Do Not Hire designations were placed in such teachers personnel files. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118043 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071459 Original UID: 189437 FIRST WORD: Board | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
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