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| | | | 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. In the circuit court of Cook County, this defendant received a bench trial and was convicted on two counts of possession with intent to deliverone involving heroin and the other involving cocaine. The cocaine conviction is not at issue. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108354 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041402 Original UID: 21262 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | 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. This sex offense case comes from Schuyler County and involves a girl born in 1991 and a boy born in 1994. Their mother married this defendant in 2000, but moved out, with her children, in March of 2003. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108769 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041403 Original UID: 21263 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | 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. In 2006, the parents of a three-week-old infant had their baby girl with them in a waiting room at Stroger Hospital when this defendant approached them and asked about the child. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108778 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041404 Original UID: 21264 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | 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. This child support dispute comes from Cook County. The parties divorced in 1991, and the father was ordered to pay support until his childs eighteenth birthday in 2007. There is no dispute that there are arrearages. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109151 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041405 Original UID: 21265 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | 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. This Cook County defendant was convicted in a bench trial as an armed habitual criminal. He was arrested in 2007 and sentenced in 2008 to a six-year term. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109361 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041406 Original UID: 21266 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. In 2002, a man was beaten to death in Champaign County and this defendant was charged with first degree murder. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109581 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041407 Original UID: 21267 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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: | 2011 January 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Theis took no part in the decision. The parties involved in this appeal were all named as defendants in a medical malpractice action. In February of 2003, a man had gastric bypass surgery at MacNeal Hospital. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110170 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041434 Original UID: 21297 FIRST WORD: Uldrych | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. In 2007, Robert Lindsay pled guilty in the circuit court of Du Page County to delivery of a controlled substance. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110089 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041435 Original UID: 21296 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. This negligence suit comes before the supreme court at the summary judgment stage. No trial has occurred. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110066 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041436 Original UID: 21295 FIRST WORD: Thompson | |
| | | 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: | 2011 January 21 | | | | 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. In 1999, this Cook County defendant was involved in a minor traffic incident with another driver. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109886 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041438 Original UID: 21294 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Theis took no part in the decision. In the summer of 1999, a man and a woman were killed in Chicago. Their bodies had been partially dismembered and parts were strewn about the city, including in the Chicago River. | | | | Date Created: | 02 25 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 98911 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041448 Original UID: 21311 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE THEIS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Thomas, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Freeman. These two defendants were convicted of burglary in a joint Cook County bench trial, but appealed separately. In each case, the appellate court reduced the conviction to theft and remanded for resentencing. | | | | Date Created: | 02 03 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108335, 108350 cons. | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041449 Original UID: 21312 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Thomas, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride dissented, with opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Theis. SPEED District 802 is a special education joint agreement district which has 15 school districts as members. These school districts pool their resources to provide special education services to students with a range of disabilities. Representing the certified staff of the district is a union (the SPEED Education Association, IEA-NEA) which is their exclusive bargaining representative. | | | | Date Created: | 02 25 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108785 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041450 Original UID: 21313 FIRST WORD: SPEED | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Thomas and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride specially concurred, with opinion. Justice Karmeier specially concurred, with opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Burke. In the circuit court of Du Page County, a jury convicted this defendant of one count of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. The appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 02 03 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109029 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041451 Original UID: 21314 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 3 | | | | 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. This Madison County litigation arose from the 2001 purchase of a computer which had allegedly been misrepresented as to its speed. | | | | Date Created: | 02 03 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109485 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041452 Original UID: 21315 FIRST WORD: Carr | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justice Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman specially concurred, with opinion. Justice Thomas dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Garman and Karmeier. In 2007, a Decatur police officer was investigating a reported gas station theft when he observed this defendant, who matched the description which had been given of the suspect. Defendant ran away, but the officer stopped him and asked for identification. | | | | Date Created: | 02 25 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109495 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041453 Original UID: 21316 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Theis specially concurred, with opinion. In 2002, Chicago police officer Sergio Oliva was flagged down by one of several persons who were standing around Demario Lowe. | | | | Date Created: | 02 25 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109541 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041454 Original UID: 21317 FIRST WORD: Ries | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride dissented, with opinion. Justice Theis took no part in the decision. A civil litigation seeking damages of $200,000 was filed in Cook County under the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. | | | | Date Created: | 02 25 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109693 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041455 Original UID: 21318 FIRST WORD: Johnston | |
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