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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This inheritance dispute is before the Illinois Supreme Court at the pleading stage. There has been no trial.Donald DeHart died in February of 2007 at age 84. In April of that year, his will dated December 4, 2006, was admitted to probate in the circuit court of Will County. The woman he had married one year prior to execution of that will, Blanca, the defendant here, was named as executor. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 114137 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064790 Original UID: 182761 FIRST WORD: DeHart | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This criminal appeal arises from the denial of a motion to suppress. Defendant Fitzpatrick was stopped by a Zion police officer for walking down the middle of a street, a petty offense which violates the Illinois Vehicle Code and which was also contrary to municipal ordinance. After a brief pat-down search, Fitzpatrick was placed under arrest and, at the police station, was searched for contraband. Cocaine was found in his sock. | | | | Date Created: | 04-04-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113449 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064791 Original UID: 182762 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2018 April 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2003, a stampede at a Chicago nightclub killed 21 people and injured 50 others. Security guards had released pepper spray to break up a fight on the dance floor, and a rush to the exit crushed these victims. | | | | Date Created: | 04-04-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113482 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064793 Original UID: 182766 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County defendant was arrested in October of 2008 when Chicago police observed him standing in the doorway of an apartment building. A codefendant who was seen standing on the sidewalk twice accepted money from a passerby and then nodded to the defendant, who then retrieved an item from the vestibule and handed it to this person. Police arrested the defendant and recovered, from the vestibule, cannabis and handguns. | | | | Date Created: | 04-04-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 114100 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064808 Original UID: 182783 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Multiple weapons charges were filed against this Cook County defendant as a result of a 2006 incident in Homewood. The vehicle which the defendant was driving was seen at dusk parked with the engine running in the center of the entrance to a motel parking lot, blocking it. Two officers parked their squad car some distance away and approached on foot to speak with the driver and saw, in plain view in the center console, a plastic bag with a bullet sticking up inside. The bullet was variously described as a large pistol round, approximately three inches long, almost as large as a rifle round. | | | | Date Created: | 04-28-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 111835 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064809 Original UID: 182784 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This criminal case comes from Elgin, in Kane County. Esteban Martinez was charged in 2006 with aggravated battery and mob action. The alleged victims were Avery Binion and Demarco Scott. After numerous continuances, a jury trial was scheduled to begin on May 17, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. However, the State announced it was not ready because its two main witnesses, the alleged victims, had not arrived. The prosecutor made an oral request to continue the trial just for a few moments to await the arrival of these witnesses. In response to this, in an apparent attempt to move the case forward, the trial judge proposed to begin the work of empaneling jurors without swearing them in, and the State agreed. | | | | Date Created: | 04-18-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113475 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064812 Original UID: 182787 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This sex offense case comes from Bloomington, in McLean County. The events involved here occurred between September of 2008 and January of 2009, when this defendant was 42 years old and the young girl who was the alleged victim was 13. The defendant had been acquainted with the victim for most of her life. | | | | Date Created: | 04-18-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113510 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064813 Original UID: 182788 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2018 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On October 21, 2003, an 84-year-old man died in a nursing home after pulling out his feeding tube several times, causing peritonitis, a systemic infection. He had been transferred to the nursing facility after a brief hospitalization, which had resulted from rough handling by this defendant. | | | | Date Created: | 04-18-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113688 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064867 Original UID: 182849 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2003, there was a fatal helicopter crash involving an air ambulance operating in the Chicago area. The pilot, the decedent here, was living and working in Illinois as an employee of Air Angels, Inc. In an attempt to recover for his death, suit was brought in the circuit court of Cook County against a number of different entities, including defendant SNFA, which is a French company. SNFA had manufactured a custom tail-rotor bearing for the helicopter. The circuit court dismissed the suit against this defendant for lack of specific personal jurisdiction, but the appellate court held otherwise, as did the Illinois Supreme Court in this decision. | | | | Date Created: | 04-18-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113909 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064869 Original UID: 182851 FIRST WORD: Russell | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiff, Chicago condominium unit owner Gary Palm, had a dispute with his condominium association, and, in 1999, sought access to some of its records and financial information. The City of Chicago, a home rule unit, has an ordinance concerning such requests. It requires production within three business days. Production was resisted on the theory that the ordinance was beyond the Citys constitutional home rule authority because state statutes on the same subject have different provisions. These statutes allow 30 days to respond to such requests, while also limiting the age of the requested documents to 10 years and requiring that a proper purpose be stated. The Citys ordinance placed no age limit on the material and required no such statement. | | | | Date Created: | 04-25-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 110505 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064870 Original UID: 182852 FIRST WORD: Palm | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 May 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2009, Chicago police responded to a large street fight. Although the officers were in plain clothes, they wore badges. One of them yelled police, stop, stop, but this juvenile respondent, then 16, fired multiple gunshots in their direction. | | | | Date Created: | 05-23-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113776 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064872 Original UID: 182854 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 May 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This complaint for a writ of mandamus was filed in the circuit court of Sangamon County in 2010. The plaintiffs are Michael McFatridge, the former elected States Attorney of Edgar County, and the County of Edgar itself.McFatridge had prosecuted Gordon Randy Steidl and Herbert Whitlock for the 1986 murders of Dyke and Karen Rhoads in Paris, Illinois, and obtained convictions, which were subsequently overturned in federal court. Both of those defendants then filed separate federal suits seeking financial recovery against McFatridge, Edgar County, and others. | | | | Date Created: | 06-23-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113676 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064873 Original UID: 182855 FIRST WORD: McFatridge | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 December 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In January of 2010, there was a fistfight at Ace Technical Charter High School in Chicago. In juvenile proceedings seeking an adjudication of delinquency, this minor respondent, then 15, was charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly striking a female classmate in the face and chest. The States offer to recommend a continuance under supervision in return for a guilty plea was rejected, and the case proceeded to a bench trial at which the victim and a security guard who had intervened testified. | | | | Date Created: | 12-19-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 110810 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064888 Original UID: 182888 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 December 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | These Cook County proceedings were initiated by the widows of two Chicago firefighters who suffered duty-related injuries and died some time later. Michael Hooker was awarded a duty disability benefit in 1989 and died in 2000. His widow, Elaine, received an ordinary widows pension from the Retirement Board of the Firemens Annuity and Retirement Benefit Fund of Chicago. James Murphy was awarded a duty disability benefit in 1985 and died in 1998. His widow, Jane, also received an ordinary widows pension. | | | | Date Created: | 12-19-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 114811 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064889 Original UID: 182889 FIRST WORD: Hooker | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 December 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The vicinity of Cordova, which is on the Mississippi River 200 miles from Springfield, was the scene of a 2006 automobile accident in which this workers compensation claimant was seriously injured. Springfield was where he resided and where his plumbers and pipefitters union was, but he had been unable to find work close to home. He arranged to work temporarily for The Venture, the plaintiff here, at this distant location where it had a facility. He stayed at a motel 30 miles from the worksite with a coworker, also from Springfield, who was driving when the accident occurred. | | | | Date Created: | 12-19-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 115728 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064890 Original UID: 182890 FIRST WORD: The | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 December 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On October 30, 2007, Ana Reyes was driving her vehicle on a street in Elgin when she was involved in an accident with two pedestrians, a mother and her four-year-old son. The boy was seriously injured and died. The mother and her husband sued Reyes for negligence and wrongful death. | | | | Date Created: | 12-19-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 115601 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064891 Original UID: 182891 FIRST WORD: American | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 December 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2006, Tiffany Brown, then a Chicago policewoman, entered the Chicago Patrolmens Federal Credit Union and presented for deposit a $1 million check made out to her which was purportedly drawn by Six Flags Great America on a JP Morgan Chase bank account. She endorsed it in her own name. | | | | Date Created: | 12-19-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 114196 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064892 Original UID: 182892 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 November 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2009, there was a fatal collision on a rural highway in Effingham County. A young man who was 18 years old and who was not intoxicated was killed. The other driver was a 60-year-old man who was intoxicated and who had been drinking in the named defendants tavern, known as Johnnys Bar and Grill. | | | | Date Created: | 11-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 115860 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064893 Original UID: 182893 FIRST WORD: Rogers | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 November 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Lake County litigation arises from an ex-wifes failure to receive child support. The defendant is the ex-husbands employer, a company for which he worked until May of 2010. In 2009 dissolution proceedings, he was ordered to pay $600 every two weeks. | | | | Date Created: | 11-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 115738 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064894 Original UID: 182894 FIRST WORD: Schultz | |
| | | 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 | |
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