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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This dispute began in 2007 when the Inspector General of the City of Chicago initiated an investigation of possible improprieties with respect to how a former city employee had been awarded a city contract without going through the normal competitive process. Documents were sought from the citys Law Department, and some information was furnished, but some documents furnished contained redactions, based on the Law Departments reliance on attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112488 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064206 Original UID: 182175 FIRST WORD: Ferguson | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 May 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This appeal involves an action for breach of contract brought by one law firm against another after the defendant law firm refused to honor the fee-sharing provisions of the firms' joint client retainer agreements. | | | | Date Created: | 05-18-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 121297 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071950 Original UID: 189939 FIRST WORD: Ferris, | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 January 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Lake County appeal involves the question of a circuit courts subject matter jurisdiction in an attorney fee dispute arising from a referral agreement between lawyers for two workers compensation claimants. | | | | Date Created: | 01-23-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117443 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069225 Original UID: 188288 FIRST WORD: Ferris, | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | 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. First American Bank Corporation and three other companies filed a tax objection contending that the Forest Preserve District of Du Page County lacked statutory authority when, in November of 1999, it passed a levy ordinance for its contribution to its pension fund for the year 2000, but did not pass an appropriation ordinance to raise those revenues until June of 2000. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109711 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041437 Original UID: 21293 FIRST WORD: First | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2018 November 29 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Illinois, a plaintiff who voluntarily dismisses a claim has only one opportunity to refile that same claim. Whether two lawsuits assert the same claim does not depend solely on how the plaintiff titles the complaint, however. This issue sometimes requires a judicial determination. | | | | Date Created: | 11-29-2018 | | | | Agency ID: | 123038 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000076306 Original UID: 191717 FIRST WORD: FIRST | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 2-08-1022 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). 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: | 09 24 2009 | | | | Agency ID: | 107707 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000024816 Original UID: 12074 FIRST WORD: Gardner | |
| | | 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. A 2005 amendment to the Property Tax Code (Pub. Act 94558) stated that the interest rate paid on a property tax refund, following a successful tax protest, would change, effective January 1, 2006, from a flat 5% to a rate which is the lesser of 5% or a rate based on the consumer price index. This latter rate has been lower. | | | | Date Created: | 05 19 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108893 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000042212 Original UID: 21729 FIRST WORD: General | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Theis took no part in the decision. This plaintiff was formerly employed as a police sergeant by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. In May of 1996, he was indicted in Vermilion County in connection with the unauthorized purchase of police badges in Danville. | | | | Date Created: | 06 16 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110239 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000044490 Original UID: 23995 FIRST WORD: Genius | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 January 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In March of 2009, a coal mine subsided beneath an elementary school in Benld, in Macoupin County. The schools construction had been completed in 2002, and it was first occupied and used in August of that year. | | | | Date Created: | 01-24-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115330 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000065549 Original UID: 183454 FIRST WORD: Gillespie | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 October 2 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This legal malpractice action comes from Cook County. The plaintiffs are Morton and Adrienne Goldfine. In the years 1987 through 1990, they worked with broker Michael Steinberg, of the Peoria office of investment firm Shearson Lehman Brothers, to purchase $4.5 million worth of stock in First Capital Holdings. That stock became worthless in 1991 after First Capitals bankruptcy. | | | | Date Created: | 10-02-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116362 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069135 Original UID: 188268 FIRST WORD: Goldfine | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride took no part in the decision. This election dispute comes from Will County. On December 6, 2010, Carmen Goodman, a Democrat, took office as a circuit judge of the 4th Judicial Subcircuit of the 12th Judicial Circuit, after defeating her Republican opponent in the November 2010 general election. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109796 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041633 Original UID: 21465 FIRST WORD: Goodman | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 January 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | State taxation of a nonprofit nursing home was upheld against a challenge brought under the uniformity clause of the Illinois Constitution, but the legislature was encouraged to reconsider the question. | | | | Date Created: | 01-23-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117083 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069222 Original UID: 188285 FIRST WORD: Grand | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This school employment dispute comes from Griggsville-Perry Community Unit School District No. 4 in Pike County. The concerned employee was a paraprofessional who, for 11 years, had worked in the elementary school library, helped at recess, and taught keyboarding classes. She was a member of the Griggsville-Perry Federation of Support Personnel IFT-AFT, Local #4141, which had a collective-bargaining agreement with the employing school district, the plaintiff here. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113721 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063809 Original UID: 182101 FIRST WORD: Griggsville | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 February 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The central issue in this case is one of jurisdictionspecifically, so-called special statutory jurisdiction under the Administrative Review Law. | | | | Date Created: | 02-17-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 120105 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071936 Original UID: 189924 FIRST WORD: Grimm | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 August 1 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Alliance Contractors of McHenry County was the employer of the claimant here. He alleged that, while working in 2004 on a job for the employer in Sycamore, in De Kalb County, he had been involved in an accident that resulted in the condition of ill-being which is the subject of this claim. However, an arbitrator for the Workers Compensation Commission denied benefits, finding a lack of causation, and the Commission adopted that decision in 2009. | | | | Date Created: | 08-01-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114212 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000065012 Original UID: 182998 FIRST WORD: Gruszeczka | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 June 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 382 Ill. App. 3d 169. JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. | | | | Date Created: | 06 18 2009 | | | | Agency ID: | 106537 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000024980 Original UID: 12244 FIRST WORD: Halpin | |
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