1st Amendment Violations
Appellants, home healthcare and childcare providers, challenge the exclusive-bargaining-representative provisions of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, 5 Ill. Comp. Stat. 315/1 et seq. (“IPLRA”).
Declaratory Judgment – Duty To Indemnify
Allied Property and Casualty Insurance Company issued a commercial general liability policy insuring a subcontractor who worked on a multi-unit residential property owned by Metro North Condominium Association.
Denial of Leave To Amend Complaint – Insufficient Complaint
The plaintiff, a law firm, seeks both individual and class relief against XO Communications, a large provider of telecommunications services to business customers, such as the plaintiff, and wholesalers.
Deliberate Indifference
Ashoor Rasho arrived at the Pontiac Correctional Center (“Pontiac”), an Illinois prison, in 2003.
Sentence Enhancement
Anthony Cook participated in an armed robbery of a Community Financial Service Center (“CFSC”) in Milwaukee.
Concealment – Prejudice
In February 2013, Eddie Gill confessed to and was charged with the murder of Jordin Crawley.
1st Amendment violation
On June 28, 2010, Joseph McGreal was fired from his position as a police officer with the Or‐ land Park Police Department.
Class Certification
The defendants appeal from an order certifying eight classes (which for simplicity we’ll pretend are just one class), consisting of persons in Illinois and Missouri who take eye drops manufactured by six pharmaceutical companies—the defendants in the case—for treatment of glaucoma.
Delinquency – Summary Reversal
Chastity Young appeals from an order of the circuit court denying her motion to vacate an amended judgment.
Ch. 51 Commitment – Statutory Interpretation
The emergency detention statute in Wisconsin’s Mental Health Act sets out a statewide process for providing, on an emergency basis, treatment to individuals who are mentally ill, drug dependent, or developmentally disabled, and who meet certain other criteria set out in the statute.
Divorce – Child Placement
Richard Parks appeals the circuit court’s order that denied his motion to revise the physical placement of his two children with Kendra Papcke-Parks.
Colloquy Defect
Darrin Church appeals judgments of conviction and orders denying his motion for postconviction relief.
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Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property