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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justice Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Justices Thomas and Karmeier. Justice Garman dissented, with opinion, joined by Chief Justice Kilbride. In 2006, in Jersey County, this plaintiff was hospitalized by defendant doctor at defendant Jersey Community Hospital for a urinary tract infection. | | | | Date Created: | 02 25 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109738 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041456 Original UID: 21319 FIRST WORD: Kaufmann | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Thomas, Karmeier, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Burke. In 2003, an $8 million loan was made by LaSalle National Bank for the purchase of land and construction of senior apartments on 13 acres in Bolingbrook. | | | | Date Created: | 02 25 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109954 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041457 Original UID: 21320 FIRST WORD: LaSalle | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 February 3 | | | | 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 Cook County offender pled guilty in 1998 to a misdemeanor cannabis offense and was sentenced to time served (two days). In 2010, he filed a motion in the circuit court to withdraw his guilty plea and vacate his conviction, alleging that he was a Mexican citizen who was a lawful permanent resident and whose petition for citizenship was being denied because of his conviction. | | | | Date Created: | 02 03 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110498 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041458 Original UID: 21321 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Thomas and Garman concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Burke and Theis. This decision arises from the States appeal of the granting of a motion to suppress in Adams County. There has been no trial. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 107276 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041459 Original UID: 21322 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | 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 Cook County, this defendant received a bench-trial conviction for murder, for which he received a 25-year sentence. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108109 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041460 Original UID: 21323 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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 and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Thomas dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Garman and Karmeier. In the circuit court of Cook County, this defendant was charged with armed violence and three counts of aggravated battery on the basis of events that occurred in 2000 near Roosevelt Road and Loomis Street in Chicago. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109413 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041630 Original UID: 21462 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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: | 2011 March 24 | | | | 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 2006, a two-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the Chicago hospital to which he was taken after being found lifeless in the apartment where this defendant was living temporarily with his aunt. Defendant had no residence of his own. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109649 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041632 Original UID: 21464 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride took no part in the decision. This election dispute comes from Will County. On December 6, 2010, Carmen Goodman, a Democrat, took office as a circuit judge of the 4th Judicial Subcircuit of the 12th Judicial Circuit, after defeating her Republican opponent in the November 2010 general election. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109796 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041633 Original UID: 21465 FIRST WORD: Goodman | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride specially concurred, with opinion. In 2008, this Cook County plaintiff booked a flight on American Airlines. It was cancelled. She did not rebook, but requested a refund of the ticket and of the $40 she had been charged to check her two bags. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110092 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041634 Original UID: 21466 FIRST WORD: Barber | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | 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. The Identity Theft Law contains a number of different provisions. Only one of them is at issue in this appeal. A violation of the Identity Theft Law requires general knowledge that one is committing the actions specified. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110194 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041635 Original UID: 21467 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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: | 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: | 2011 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Thomas, Garman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman took no part in the decision. This Winnebago County case is before the supreme court at the pleading stage. There has been no trial. In 2006, a nursing home resident died at the defendants facility in Rockford. A circuit court complaint was filed seeking damages. It alleged common law negligence and also violations of the Nursing Home Care Act. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110406 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041646 Original UID: 21472 FIRST WORD: Vincent | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Karmeier specially concurred, with opinion. In 2003, this plaintiff, Jane Studt, went to the emergency room of Sherman Hospital in Kane County, complaining of abdominal pain. She was prescribed medications for a urinary tract infection and pain and sent home. | | | | Date Created: | 06 16 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108182 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041650 Original UID: 21475 FIRST WORD: Studt | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 May 19 | | | | 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. On March 18, 2004, this St. Clair County defendant entered a fully negotiated guilty plea to retail theft and was placed on two years of probation. | | | | Date Created: | 05 19 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108441 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041651 Original UID: 21476 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 March 24 | | | | 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 2006, a two-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the Chicago hospital to which he was taken after being found lifeless in the apartment where this defendant was living temporarily with his aunt. Defendant had no residence of his own. | | | | Date Created: | 03 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109649 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000042027 Original UID: 41632 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Thomas, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion. Plaintiff, a Du Page County widow, discovered after her husbands death in 2007 that the marital home was claimed by her stepson, who brought an action in forcible entry and detainer to remove her from the property. She had thought she was a joint tenant with her husband and was entitled to the premises by right of survivorship. | | | | Date Created: | 06 16 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 111052 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000042209 Original UID: 21726 FIRST WORD: Snyder | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Thomas, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Karmeier specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Justice Freeman. This Will County litigation concerns the incarceration of Kensley Hawkins between July 1, 1983, and March 17, 2005, at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet. One statute provides that an inmate may be held responsible for the costs of his incarceration, indicating how those costs are calculated, and stating that the Department of Corrections may authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for the recovery of the amount owed. | | | | Date Created: | 06 16 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 110792 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000042210 Original UID: 21727 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 June 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Garman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Thomas and Karmeier. In 2007, this Cook County defendant was brought to trial for the 2002 criminal sexual assault of a woman who lived on the south side of Chicago. She had left her home at midnight to go to a store. Subsequently, she identified defendant in a police lineup. At trial, she testified as to how this defendant pushed her into a van and raped her. | | | | Date Created: | 06 16 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 108690 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000042211 Original UID: 21728 FIRST WORD: People | |
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