Illinois Supreme Court Debates Damages Measures for Malpractice in Securities...
Our reports on the oral arguments from the May term of the Illinois Supreme Court continue with Goldfine v. Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum and Perlman. Goldfine poses a number of issues about legal...
View ArticleBig Day Tomorrow - Two Public Pension Opinions Coming From the Illinois...
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced that opinions in two cases addressing public employee pensions, Kanerva v. Weems and People ex rel. Madigan v. Burge, will be filed tomorrow morning at 9:00...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Debates Effect of Failure to Register as Debt Collector
Our reports on the oral arguments during the May term of the Illinois Supreme Court continue with a direct appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 302 – LVNV Funding v. Trice....By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Adopts Broad Construction of Constitutional Pension...
The Illinois Supreme Court has issued its much-anticipated opinion in Kanerva v. Weems. Kanerva represents the Court’s first opportunity to address the state Constitution’s Pension Protection Clause...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Expansive Interpretation of...
Our reports on the oral arguments during the May term of the Illinois Supreme Court continue with Bruns v. City of Centralia. Bruns poses a question with the potential to blow a significant hole in the...
View ArticleSharply Divided Illinois Supreme Court Narrows Circuit Court Jurisdiction...
In its second significant decision on public employee pensions of the morning, the Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the Appellate Court in The People ex rel. Madigan v. Burge. In an opinion by...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Debates Constitutionality of Red-Light Ordinance
Our reports on the oral arguments of the Illinois Supreme Court’s May term continue with Keating v. City of Chicago. Keating poses an important question for Illinois motorists: are municipal red light...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Debates Automatic Revocation of Certain Health...
Our reports on the oral arguments of the May term of the Illinois Supreme Court conclude this morning with Consiglio v. Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Consiglio involves a...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Rejects Expansive Interpretation of Exception to...
In the recently concluded September term, the Illinois Supreme Court reaffirmed the “open-and-obvious peril” doctrine and gave needed definition to the “distraction” exception to that rule, unanimously...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Holds Improper Venue Not a Jurisdictional Defect in...
A unanimous Illinois Supreme Court recently decided Slepicka v. The Illinois Department of Public Health. The Court defined proper venue for an action under state law for judicial review of an...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Agrees to Decide If Accountant-Client Privilege...
In the closing days of its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court allowed a petition for leave to appeal in Brunton v. Kruger. Brunton involves the scope of the accountant-client privilege – more...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Seems Likely to Reinstate Attorney General's Appeal...
In the recently concluded September term, the Illinois Supreme Court heard one of the shortest civil arguments it has heard in many years in People ex rel. Madigan v. Illinois Commerce Commission....
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Agrees to Unravel Procedural Tangle in Internet...
Our previews of the newest additions to the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket continue with Hadley v. Subscriber Doe. Hadley is a defamation case arising from an anonymous internet posting, but...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Adopts Measure of Malpractice Damages in Securities Cases
Last month, the Illinois Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in a case being closely watched by the local bar associations – Goldfine v. Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum & Perlman....
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Medical Licensing...
Last month, a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court rejected assorted constitutional challenges to 2011 amendments to the Department of Professional Regulation Law governing medical licensing. In an opinion...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Holds Subcontractor Should Have Proceeded Against...
Last month, a divided Supreme Court held that a subcontractor on a public works program should have timely proceeded against the project bond, and had no remedy against the Village after the general...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Weigh Private Right of Action for Failure to...
During its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to decide a novel question presented by a case arising from the Fifth District: does a prisoner have an implied right of action against the...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Debates Scope of Court Authority Over Academic...
During its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court debated the scope of courts’ authority to intervene in academic investigations at the University of Illinois in order to require University...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Agrees to Review Tobacco Verdict Again
Not infrequently, the law calls upon a court to decide what another court would do with a particular issue or case. In the closing days of its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to take...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Agrees to Return to Pension Debates
In the closing days of its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to return once again to what surely must be the most controversial subject at the moment in all of Illinois’ civil law:...
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