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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County respondent was convicted in 1987 of two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault against a 12-year-old boy, and in 1995 of aggravated criminal sexual and two counts of criminal sexual assault against a 14-year-old boy. | | | | Date Created: | 11-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116306 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069134 Original UID: 188267 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | 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: | 2014 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County appeal involves the time period for seeking appellate court review of administrative orders. Generally speaking, that time period is 30 days, as given by the Rules of the Supreme Court. In this particular case, the order in question was entered by the Illinois Commerce Commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. | | | | Date Created: | 11-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116642 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069136 Original UID: 188269 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2001, Joseph Pusateri, who worked for Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, rose to the level of service supervisor. In 2009, when he was no longer employed there, he filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County under what was then the Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act. | | | | Date Created: | 11-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116844 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069137 Original UID: 188270 FIRST WORD: State | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 September 14 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The plaintiff in this case is a resident of Holy Family Villa, a skilled nursing facility in Palos Park in Cook County. | | | | Date Created: | 09-18-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116927 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069138 Original UID: 188271 FIRST WORD: Slepicka | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 December 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A 1998 shooting on the streets of the south side of Chicago resulted in the death of a 14-year-old for which this defendant was convicted by a Cook County jury of first degree murder and aggravated firearm discharge on an accountability theory. The defendants police-station statement indicated that he drove the vehicle from which the shooters, armed with guns, jumped out. On direct review, the appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 12-04-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115946 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069139 Original UID: 188262 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Events in Montgomery, in Kendall County, resulted in this defendant being charged with several misdemeanors in 2010 and 2011 in connection with her disputes with her estranged husband concerning her missing children. She was ultimately given appointed counsel. | | | | Date Created: | 11-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116989 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069140 Original UID: 188272 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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: | 2014 December 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | McDonough County juries have twice convicted this defendant of murder in the 2006 death of his girlfriends five-year-old daughter, who died from head injuries caused by blunt force trauma. There was error in both trials, and in each a new trial was ordered by the appellate court. | | | | Date Created: | 12-18-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 117094 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069143 Original UID: 188275 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 February 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Thomas, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Kilbride dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Theis. This Cook County appeal deals with the applicability of a statute of repose. | | | | Date Created: | 02-21-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 114271 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069195 Original UID: 188193 FIRST WORD: Evanston | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 February 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this Randolph County case, a 2010 circuit court order for the continuation of the involuntary admission of a patient at the Chester Mental Health Center was upheld, despite the fact that the appellate court had overturned it. | | | | Date Created: | 02-21-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 114483 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069196 Original UID: 188194 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In the circuit court of Cook County, this defendant was charged with computer tampering in 2008. An arraignment was set for June 18 of that year, but the docket sheet, the judges half sheet, and the court call sheet for that date indicate that the defendant was not in court and that the arraignment did not take place. | | | | Date Created: | 03-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 114852 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069197 Original UID: 188195 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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: | 2014 February 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Livingston County, this defendant was sentenced in April 2012 to 12 years in prison after entering an open plea of guilty to drug offenses. The trial court had entered a conviction for unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. On May 3, 2012, a motion to reconsider the sentence as excessive was filed. | | | | Date Created: | 02-21-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115329 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069199 Original UID: 188197 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Kilbride and Burke. In Highland Park, defendant Lisa Carlson owned a residential unit in the Spanish Court Two Condominium, whose condominium association is the plaintiff here. | | | | Date Created: | 03-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115342 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069200 Original UID: 188198 FIRST WORD: Spanish | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A provision of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act prohibits a noncustodial parent who has been convicted of a sex offense involving a minor from obtaining court-ordered visitation with his children while serving sentence and until completing a treatment program. | | | | Date Created: | 05-22-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115463 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069201 Original UID: 188199 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2001, the injury victim in this case, Edward Anderson, was in the intensive care unit of Provena St. Marys Hospital in Cook County, suffering from epiglottitis. A negligence action was later filed on his behalf, based on a severe and permanent brain injury which he suffered when an emergency room physician attempted to intubate him after responding to a Code Blue based on the patients labored breathing and pain on swallowing. Anderson is now a disabled person. | | | | Date Created: | 03-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115526 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069202 Original UID: 188200 FIRST WORD: Home | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Kilbride, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. In 2008, in a church parking lot under the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago, an armed but off-duty police officer heard the sound of breaking glass and found a man reaching into a parked car through a broken window. | | | | Date Created: | 03-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115527 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069205 Original UID: 188202 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Statute requires a dispositional hearing after an individual is found sexually violent, and a circuit court erred in refusing to hold one and in entering a commitment order based on what had been heard at the jury trialorder properly vacated and cause remanded for evidence andargument. | | | | Date Created: | 05-22-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115542 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069206 Original UID: 188203 FIRST WORD: In | |
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