Illinois Supreme Court to Tackle Public Employees' Right to Strike
Our previews of the new civil cases granted review at the end of the Illinois Supreme Court’s November term continue with The Board of Education of Peoria School District No. 150 v. The Peoria...
View ArticleCan the Cook County Commission on Human Rights Award Punitive Damages?
Our previews of the new civil cases granted review at the end of the Illinois Supreme Court’s November term conclude with Crittenden v. Cook County Commission on Human Rights. Crittenden involves a...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Issue Final Four Civil Opinions on Friday Morning
This morning, the Illinois Supreme Court announced that it will issue four more civil opinions on Friday morning to close out 2012. The upcoming decisions deal with issues as diverse as res judicata...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Declines to Decide Absolute Immunity Issue in Cooney
Cooney v. Rossiter presented two questions: (1) was the plaintiffs' individual action barred by the dismissal of an earlier putative class action; and (2) is a court-appointed psychological evaluator...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Holds Judgment of Foreclosure Not Immediately Appealable
Under Illinois law, a judgment of foreclosure does not end a mortgage foreclosure case; it remains modifiable by the trial court and is strictly interlocutory. After such a judgment is entered, the...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Rejects Forum Shopping in Asbestos Case
May a lifelong resident of Mississippi who alleges that he was exposed to asbestos and assorted other allegedly toxic agents while working out of the defendant's Jackson Mississippi facility...
View ArticleMarital Property Valued as of Date of Divorce, Not Date of Property...
Under Illinois law, courts may under certain circumstances enter a judgment of dissolution in a divorce case and wait until later, as part of a bifurcated proceeding, to enter a property distribution...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Consider The Potential Perils of E-Filing a Notice...
We continue our previews of the civil cases scheduled for oral argument during the Illinois Supreme Court's January term with VC&M, Ltd. v. Andrews....By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Consider If Mailbox Rule Applies to Administrative...
Our preview of the civil cases to be heard by the Illinois Supreme Court during the upcoming January term concludes with Gruszeczka v. The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission. Gruszeczka poses an...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Will Hear Five Civil Cases During January Term
The Illinois Supreme Court has posted its docket for the impending January term, and the Court will hear argument in five civil cases....By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Announces Anticipated Filing Dates for January and...
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced its anticipated filing dates for January and February. Opinions are expected on Friday, January 25; Thursday, February 7; and Friday, February 22. Decisions on...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Announces Two Civil Opinions to Be Filed Friday
This afternoon, the Illinois Supreme Court announced that it will file two new civil opinions on Friday morning: Poris v. Lake Holiday Property Owners Association, No. 113907 – (1) May a property...
View ArticleArgument Report: Can Lack of Testamentary Capacity Be Proven From the Will...
A relatively quiet Illinois Supreme Court gave little indication of its leanings last week during oral argument in DeHart v. DeHart....By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Holds Private Security May Stop and Detain To Enforce...
Can a homeowners' association private security officer stop and briefly detain a resident who is exceeding the speed limit set for the association's privately owned roads by the Board of Directors? Can...
View ArticleArgument Report: The Perils of E-Filing a Notice of Appeal
Based upon questioning during last week's oral argument, the Illinois Supreme Court seemed unlikely to forgive plaintiff's counsel for filing a notice of appeal electronically in apparent violation of...
View ArticleTort Claims for Interfering With Expected Inheritance Generally Not Barred...
Friday morning, a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court held that in most cases, a tort claim for intentional interference with testamentary expectancy is not subject to the six-month statute of limitations...
View ArticleArgument Report: Will the Mailbox Rule Be Extended to Workers' Comp...
The mailbox rule applies to filing an appeal from an arbitrator to the Workers Compensation Commission. Norris v. Industrial Commission. And it applies to filing an appeal from the Circuit Court's...
View ArticleArgument Report: Is the State Required to Pay The Legal Fees of an Elected...
If a state elected official is sued for his or her official actions, may the Attorney General refuse to defend the official based solely on the allegations of the complaint? That's the question the...
View ArticleArgument Report: Illinois Supreme Court Gets Its First Shot at Interpreting...
In J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, a plurality of the United States Supreme Court held that merely placing a product into the stream of commerce with the expectation that it would wind up in...
View ArticleAre The Illinois Labor Department's Administrative Fines Unconstitutional?
Yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court granted leave to appeal in four new civil cases. We begin our previews of these newest additions to the court’s docket with Bartlow v. Costigan, which raises a...
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