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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 | |
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