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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 1-06-1556 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). 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. This limitations appeal arises from a Cook County suit for legal malpractice. In 2002, defendant attorney drafted a living trust for a client which directed the clients estate to convey property in Westmont to the clients sister. | | | | Date Created: | 11 20 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105459 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036259 Original UID: 17355 FIRST WORD: Wackrow | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Foreclosure Prevention Program has been established by the Illinois Housing Development Act. It is funded by a Code of Civil Procedure provision imposing a $50 filing fee in residential mortgage foreclosure cases, 2% of which is retained by the clerk of the circuit court in which the foreclosure action is filed. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117138 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070506 Original UID: 188777 FIRST WORD: Walker | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Garman, Karmeier, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justices Freeman and Burke specially concurred, with opinion. The petitioners, Walter P. Maksym, Jr., and Thomas L. McMahon, filed written objections to the candidacy of the respondent, Rahm Emanuel (the candidate), who seeks to be a candidate for mayor of the City of Chicago in the municipal general election to be held on February 22, 2011. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 111773 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041433 Original UID: 21298 FIRST WORD: Walter | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 February 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | At issue in this appeal is whether, in an action brought under the Federal Employers Liability Act (45 U.S.C. 51 et seq. (2006)), a defendant railroad may argue to the jury that a third party was the only person whose negligent conduct caused the plaintiffs injuries. For the reasons that follow, we hold that it may. | | | | Date Created: | 02-17-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 120438 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071938 Original UID: 189926 FIRST WORD: Wardwell | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This dispute arises from the logging of timberland in Warren County. The plaintiff is the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District. Among the defendants are Steve Walters, an Iowa timber buyer and Robert ODell, an Iowa logger. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117783 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070499 Original UID: 188770 FIRST WORD: Warren | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 383 Ill. App. 3d 304. JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. | | | | Date Created: | 05 21 2009 | | | | Agency ID: | 107108 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000024959 Original UID: 12200 FIRST WORD: Weather | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 November 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This mortgage foreclosure case comes from Du Page County and involves a residential property located in Naperville. In 2009, defendant McCluskey executed a promissory note for $330,186, on the property, with Wells Fargo Bank as the mortgage holder. Foreclosure proceedings were begun in 2010 for nonpayment, but defendant, after service, did not answer or plead. An order of default and judgment of foreclosure were entered in 2011. | | | | Date Created: | 11-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 115469 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064896 Original UID: 182896 FIRST WORD: Wells | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justice Karmeier took no part in the decision. Southern Illinois Hospital Services owns Herrin Hospital, where Nancy Howell was treated for personal injuries she received in an automobile accident. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110199 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041643 Original UID: 21469 FIRST WORD: Wendling | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 September 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion. Yorkville National Bank has a branch in Ottawa. In 2000, events there resulted in the September 24, 2001, filing of a Will County defamation suit against the bank and its vice president. Trial was scheduled for the spring of 2004, but the case was settled that summer for $1.75 million. | | | | Date Created: | 09 23 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 108285 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034341 Original UID: 15922 FIRST WORD: West | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 June 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The plaintiff driver in this 2005 automobile accident was injured when she was going east on 95th Street in Oak Lawn to reach a doctors office. She attempted to turn left across three lanes of oncoming traffic. The two oncoming lanes closest to her stopped for her, but she collided with a vehicle in the curbside lane, which did not. It was a private ambulance driven by this defendant, who was making a nonemergency transfer of a patient from a hospital to a nursing home, without flashing lights or siren. | | | | Date Created: | 06-20-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114310 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000065010 Original UID: 182996 FIRST WORD: Wilkins | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 January 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiff Anthony Williams injured his back in 2003 while working for defendant employer BNSF Railway, loading freight containers off of the ground and onto a waiting chassis. He filed suit under the Federal Employers Liability Act to recover for the permanent disability which resulted. | | | | Date Created: | 01-23-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117444 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069226 Original UID: 188289 FIRST WORD: Williams | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | 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. In April of 2006, Chicago Castings Company permanently closed its facility. This employee, who had worked there for nine years, was terminated. She applied to the Department of Employment Security for unemployment compensation and received it, but it ran out in December of that year. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109469 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041631 Original UID: 21463 FIRST WORD: Williams | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 April 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 372 Ill. App. 3d 211. JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke took no part in the decision. In 2002, an automobile accident occurred at the intersection of Montrose and Western Avenues in Chicago. | | | | Date Created: | 04 03 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104524 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036680 Original UID: 17768 FIRST WORD: Williams | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 July 11 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Justice Burke delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Theis concur in the judgment and opinion. On July 13, 2009, a legislative capital projects plan with numerous provisions created the Video Gaming Act and was signed into law by Governor Patrick Quinn. | | | | Date Created: | 07 11 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 111903 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000044469 Original UID: 23983 FIRST WORD: Wirtz | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. The named appellant here, WISAM 1, Inc., began doing business as Sheridan Liquors on Sheridan Road in Peoria in 2002. Its owner and president was Adnan Asad. His two brothers, Mike and Jalal, managed and operated the store. | | | | Date Created: | 05-22-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 116173 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069067 Original UID: 188215 FIRST WORD: WISAM | |
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