Illinois Supreme Court to Decide If Wrongful Death Plaintiff's Lawyer Owes...
Our previews of the newest additions to the Illinois Supreme Court's civil docket continue with Estate of Powell v. John C. Wunsch, P.C., a case from the Third Division of the First District which...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Flexible Utility Rate-Making...
Our previews of the newest additions to the Illinois Supreme Court's civil docket continue with People ex rel. Madigan v. Illinois Commerce Commission. Madigan poses a question involving the...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Five Civil Cases This Week
The civil portion of the Illinois Supreme Court’s argument docket for the January term begins tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. in the Court’s temporary courtroom on the 18th floor of the Michael A....
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Holds Five-Year Statute Applies to Fraud Claims...
On Friday afternoon, in an opinion by Justice Robert R. Thomas, a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court held that fraud-based claims against architects are subject to a five-year statute of limitations. In...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From Illinois' Kilbride Court
On Friday, Oct. 25, Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride ended a three-year term as chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, resuming his seat as an associate justice. The following Monday marked the...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Debates Whether State FOIA Applies to State's...
Based upon the oral argument during the recently-concluded January term, it is not clear what the Illinois Supreme Court is likely to decide in Nelson v. The Office of the Kendall County State's...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Address Distraction Exception to Open-and-Obvious...
We begin our previews of the civil cases which the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to review at the conclusion of its January term with Bruns v. The City of Centralia, Illinois. Bruns - which arises from...
View ArticleThe Perils of Incomplete Service
Our previews of the newest additions to the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket continue with Bettis v. Marsaglia, an election law case from the Fourth District. Bettis poses the question of whether...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Decide Whether Improper Venue in an Administrative...
Our previews of the new review grants from the Illinois Supreme Court’s January term continue with Slepicka v. State of Illinois, a case from the Fourth District of the Appellate Court. Slepicka poses...
View ArticleArgument Report: Does Waiver of Personal Jurisdiction Apply to Orders Entered...
In the recently concluded January term of the Illinois Supreme Court, the court heard arguments in five civil cases. Our reports begin with BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP v. Mitchell. In BAC, an...
View ArticleArgument Report: Does Voluntarily Dismissing a Custody Petition Mean You Get...
In our detailed summary of the underlying facts and lower court opinions in In re Marriage of Tiballi, we wrote that the question presented was whether a parent who voluntarily dismisses a custody...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Decide Whether Insurance Agents Owe a Duty of Care
Our previews of the civil cases which the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to review in the closing days of the January term continue with Skaperdas v. Country Casualty Insurance Company, a decision from...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Decide Scope of State Whistleblower Act
Our previews of the newest additions to the Illinois Supreme Court's civil docket conclude with State of Illinois ex rel. Pusateri v. The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company. An unpublished decision...
View ArticleWhat the Pension Reform Decision in Arizona May Mean for Illinois
Today the Arizona Supreme Court has handed down its much-anticipated decision in Fields v. The Elected Officials’ Retirement Plan. In Fields, the Court unanimously struck down a pension reform package...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Handing Down Bartlow and Evanston Insurance on Friday...
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced that it will file opinions in two civil cases on Friday morning at 10 a.m. The cases and issues presented are......By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleArgument Report: Illinois Supreme Court Debates the Scope of the Good...
Our reports on the oral arguments of the recent term of the Illinois Supreme Court continue with Home Star Bank & Financial Services v. Emergency Care & Health Organization, Ltd. Home Star...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Upholds Employee Classification Act
Yesterday in Bartlow v. Costigan, a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court took a pass, for the most part, on deciding constitutional challenges to provisions of the Employee Classification Act which were...
View ArticleCould an Insurer’s Declaratory Judgment Action Waive the Right to Participate...
An insurer offers its insured a defense under a reservation of rights and files a complaint seeking a declaratory judgment determining coverage. This is not an uncommon sequence of events, either in...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Debates Jurisdiction Over Pension Dispute
The Illinois Supreme Court seemed conflicted during an extremely active oral argument in late January in the high-profile pension case People ex rel. Madigan v. Burge. Burge poses the following issue:...
View ArticleWhat's Pending on the Illinois Supreme Court's Advisement Docket?
As we near the opening of the March docket, it's time to take a look at the civil cases that are argued and pending for decision before the Illinois Supreme Court. The Court is quite up-to-date on its...
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