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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 October 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Justice Garman delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Karmeier,and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion.Justice Kilbride took no part in the decision. | | | | Date Created: | 10 21 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 107309 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034195 Original UID: 15751 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | July 15 2010 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Kilbride. In June 2005, plaintiff, Marianna Krywin, filed a two-count complaint in the circuit court of Cook County against defendant, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), stemming from an injury she suffered while alighting from one of the CTA's trains onto the southbound platform at Sheridan Road in Chicago. | | | | Date Created: | 09 27 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 108888 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034323 Original UID: 15887 FIRST WORD: Marianna | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 November 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. In January of 2005, a shooting incident took place at Woodruff High School in Peoria. This offender was 15 years old at the time. | | | | Date Created: | 11 18 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 108932 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034324 Original UID: 15888 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 July 15 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.Justices Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman specially concurred, with opinion. Justice Burke concurred in part and dissented in part, with opinion. In February of 2000, a 22-year-old woman who was on her way home from work on the south side of Chicago was attacked and sexually assaulted. | | | | Date Created: | 07 15 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 107550 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034325 Original UID: 15889 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 July 15 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Garman specially concurred, with opinion. On April 5, 2004, a collision occurred in Winnebago County. The driver of one car died as a result. | | | | Date Created: | 07 15 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 107016 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034326 Original UID: 15891 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 April 15 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In the circuit court of Peoria County, this defendant was convicted in a stipulated bench trial for aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. | | | | Date Created: | 02 17 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 107975 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034329 Original UID: 15894 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 September 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | 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. A corporate taxpayer with headquarters in Nebraska keeps and does maintenance on an airplane there which was purchased in 2000 from an Arkansas company. No tax was ever paid to any state in connection with the aircrafts purchase. | | | | Date Created: | 09 23 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 109300 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034331 Original UID: 15909 FIRST WORD: Irwin | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 April 15 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE FREEMAN 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 Burke specially concurred, with opinion. In 2004, Chicago police arrested this defendant after he was observed standing outside a building and, from individuals who came, taking money in return for items retrieved from a plastic bag in a doorway. That bag contained smaller bags which were later determined to be heroin. | | | | Date Created: | 02 17 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 107536 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034333 Original UID: 15895 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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. This defendant was living in St. Charles in 2003 when he was charged with unlawful possession of child pornography. A person to whom he had given access to his residence found video clips that were turned over to police. | | | | Date Created: | 09 23 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 109184 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034335 Original UID: 15915 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 September 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. The plaintiff in this Cook County litigation is a sole proprietor who renovated a Chicago building for the defendant and his wife on the basis of an oral agreement. (They had been friends.) The total estimated price of the project was $500,000, but, when the work was completed in 2006, the defendant owed over $300,000 and refused to pay. | | | | Date Created: | 09 23 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 109156 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034336 Original UID: 15917 FIRST WORD: K. | |
| | | 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: | 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 | |
| | | 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: | 2010 September 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | 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. In 2006, in Kane County, an incident took place at school that resulted in the filing of a juvenile petition against a 12-year-old female. Commission of battery was alleged. She was found guilty after a May 22, 2007, bench proceeding, and on June 24, 2007, was placed on probation for one year, with conditions. | | | | Date Created: | 11 22 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 108953 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034342 Original UID: 15920 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 November, 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Defendant Carmecita Williams was convicted of officialmisconduct (720 ILCS 5/333(b) (West 1998)), and sentenced to 24months probation. The appellate court reversed defendantsconviction and entered a judgment of acquittal, concluding that theevidence was insufficient to sustain her conviction. | | | | Date Created: | 11 18 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 108947 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034400 Original UID: 15980 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 November, 18 | | | | 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. Defendant, Robert G. McDonough, was charged in the circuit court of Jersey County with driving under the influence of alcohol(625 ILCS 5/11501(a)(2) (West 2008)). Defendant filed a motion tosuppress evidence and quash arrest. The circuit court granted defendants motion and subsequently rescinded the statutory summary suspension of his drivers license. The State appealed to the appellate court (see 210 Ill. 2d R. 604(a)). A divided panel of the appellate court reversed the circuit courts order to suppress evidence and quash arrest and remanded the cause to the circuit court for further proceedings. 395 Ill. App. 3d 194. | | | | Date Created: | 11 18 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 109489 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034444 Original UID: 15997 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 October, 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | 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. In this appeal, we address whether section 1 of the Sureties Act (740 ILCS 155/1 (West 2000)) is applicable to guarantors. JPMorgan Chase Bank (Bank) filed suit against Earth Foods, Inc., for breach of contract, and against Michael Jarvis, Theodore L. Petrovich, and Leonard S. DeFranco as guarantors of a defaulted loan. DeFranco sought protection under section 1 of the Sureties Act. | | | | Date Created: | 10 21 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 107682 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034445 Original UID: 16003 FIRST WORD: JP | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 November, 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. After a jury trial in the circuit court of Tazewell County, defendant Gregory Dabbs was convicted of domestic battery (720 ILCS 5/123.2(a)(1) (West 2006)) against his girlfriend. At trial, his ex-wifewas permitted to testify pursuant to section 1157.4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (Code) (725 ILCS 5/1157.4 (West 2008)) that he had physically abused her. Defendant argued on appeal that section 1157.4 of the Code is unconstitutional. | | | | Date Created: | 11 18 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 109698 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034457 Original UID: 15998 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 October, 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke dissented, with opinion. Defendant, Marc A. Close, was charged by indictment with one count of felony driving while license revoked (625 ILCS 5/6303(d) (West 2006)). The circuit court of La Salle County granted defendants motion to quash arrest and suppress evidence, finding the stop of defendants vehicle was unlawful because the officer had noreasonable, articulable suspicion that defendant was driving outside the terms of his restricted driving permit (RDP). | | | | Date Created: | 10 21 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 108459 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034458 Original UID: 16005 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 October, 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Freeman. The State charged defendant, James T. Johnson, with one countof criminal sexual abuse, a Class A misdemeanor (720 ILCS 5/1215(c) (West 2004)), alleging that on May 23, 2005, defendant knowingly had sexual intercourse with the victim, A.C., when she was between 13 and 17 years old, and defendant was less than 5 years older than A.C. Defendants first jury trial in the circuit court of Will County resulted in a deadlocked jury, and the court declared a mistrial. The State then retried defendant. | | | | Date Created: | 10 21 2010 | | | | Agency ID: | 108253 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000034459 Original UID: 16004 FIRST WORD: People | |
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