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| | | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 July 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | After heavy rainfall in July 2010 in Cook County, there was flooding in the villages of Bellwood, Hillside and Westchester, where defendant Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago is responsible for stormwater management. Jenice Hampton is the lead plaintiff of a class of property owners and residents who filed suit to recover from the defendant concerning the flooding. | | | | Date Created: | 07-08-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119861 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071644 Original UID: 189631 FIRST WORD: Hampton | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Cook County Public Guardian Robert F. Harris is the plaintiff in this case, and defendant One Hope United is a corporation which contracts with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to provide services aimed at keeping troubled families together. | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117200 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069528 Original UID: 188429 FIRST WORD: Harris | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 November 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiff, Hartney Fuel Oil Company, is a retailer of fuel oil with a home office in Forest View, in Cook County. During the tax period in question, January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2007, Hartney accepted purchase orders in the Village of Mark, in Putnam County, through a local business with which it contracted. No Hartney employees were involved there. By structuring its sales in this way, Hartney avoided liability for the retail occupation taxes of Cook County, the Village of Forest View, and the Regional Transportation Authority. Hartneys interpretation of the law was that there is a bright-line test that the situs of a sale is where the seller accepts a purchase order, in this case, the Village of Mark. This position was consistent with the regulations which were published at the time. | | | | Date Created: | 11-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 115130 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064974 Original UID: 182958 FIRST WORD: Hartney | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 October 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. These consolidated appeals involving revocation of health care licenses come from Cook County. The plaintiffs in these cases are one chiropractor and two physicians. | | | | Date Created: | 10-17-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116023 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069130 Original UID: 188263 FIRST WORD: Hayashi | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A nonprofit Chicago condominium association and the elected board of managers which governs it are the plaintiffs in this Cook County civil suit for damages. Several individuals and companies who had a role in the construction of the project were sued. | | | | Date Created: | 09-04-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118139 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070680 Original UID: 188979 FIRST WORD: Henderson | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Hennings, No. 3050016 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). Patterson, No. 1040077 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Garman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Both Edward Hennings, who was convicted in 2001 in Will County, and Vincent Patterson, who was convicted in 1983 in Cook County, had sentencing issues which they raised by way of complaint for habeas corpus. Their complaints were denied, and the appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 102694, 103405 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036330 Original UID: 17433 FIRST WORD: Hennings | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 January 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Defendant, the city of Chicago (City), imposes a tax on the use of personal property within its borders. | | | | Date Created: | 01-20-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 119945, 119960 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071933 Original UID: 189921 FIRST WORD: Hertz | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. The issues in this appeal concern parole. A hired killer, William Hill, fatally shot the wrong man in 1974, but was more accurate in 1975, fatally shooting his intended target. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110215 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041644 Original UID: 21470 FIRST WORD: Hill | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Original action for mandamus. JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke took no part in the decision. This Cook County offender entered a negotiated plea of guilty to second degree murder in connection with a 1996 homicide. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105415 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036491 Original UID: 17548 FIRST WORD: Holly | |
| | | 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: | 2016 August 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This case addresses the question of whether the circuit court erroneously held that theredistricting initiative petition submitted by Support Independent Maps (Independent Maps)failed to comply with the requirements of article XIV, section 3, of our constitution. | | | | Date Created: | 08-25-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 121077 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071647 Original UID: 189634 FIRST WORD: Hooker | |
| | | 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: | 2008 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 373 Ill. App. 3d 420. JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Garman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. This Cook County litigation involves a foreclosure proceeding on a home in Country Club Hills. The homeowners mortgage obligation to Household, the lending bank, was incurred in 1999. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104826 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036462 Original UID: 17537 FIRST WORD: Household | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 September 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Three Illinois counties, three Missouri counties, and the City of St. Louis are served by a mass transit system known as Metro, or Bi-State, an agency created by a Congressionally approved interstate compact between Illinois and Missouri. Such an arrangement is appropriate under the compact clause of the United States Constitution. In 2005, a collision between a bus and plaintiffs car occurred on Highway 159 in Belleville. Plaintiff sued defendant transit system in the circuit court of St. Clair County, claiming personal injuries. | | | | Date Created: | 09 23 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 109137 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034337 Original UID: 15918 FIRST WORD: Hubble | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiff William Huber petitioned the circuit court of Sangamon County for the judicial dissolution of the American Accounting Association, a corporation. He was unsuccessful and his petition was dismissed in 2013. | | | | Date Created: | 11-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 117293 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069216 Original UID: 188279 FIRST WORD: Huber | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 January 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Kilbride dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Fitzgerald. Justice Kilbride dissented, with opinion, upon denial of rehearing, joined by Justice Fitzgerald Justice Burke took no part in the decision. In 1998, a five-year-old Chicago boy died as a result of an acute asthma attack. Although his mother had dialed 911, the vehicle that was initially sent did not have advanced life-support capabilities, but was a fire truck, and an ambulance did not arrive for 15 minutes. | | | | Date Created: | 01 25 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 100466 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000035298 Original UID: 16700 FIRST WORD: Hudson | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 September 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In Urbana, James Hurlbert was arrested in October of 2003 for driving under the influence of alcohol. Taken to the Champaign County Jail, he declined to submit to a breathalyzer test, and, thus, pursuant to statute, his driving privileges were summarily suspended. | | | | Date Created: | 09 23 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 109041 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034340 Original UID: 15919 FIRST WORD: Hurlbert | |
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