This Lake County appeal involves the question of a circuit courts subject matter jurisdiction in an attorney fee dispute arising from a referral agreement between lawyers for two workers compensation claimants.
State taxation of a nonprofit nursing home was upheld against a challenge brought under the uniformity clause of the Illinois Constitution, but the legislature was encouraged to reconsider the question.
On January 22, 2009, the Adams County States Attorney received a report from a detective who was an elder-services officer with the Quincy Police Department. The report concerned a widow who was then 81 and was residing in a nursing facility after her home had been sold in 2005.
Plaintiff Anthony Williams injured his back in 2003 while working for defendant employer BNSF Railway, loading freight containers off of the ground and onto a waiting chassis. He filed suit under the Federal Employers Liability Act to recover for the permanent disability which resulted.
This Macoupin County case arises from a 2005 armed robbery at a Hardees Restaurant in Staunton. A woman entered the premises with a gun, demanded cash, and exited with $366. This defendant was waiting for her in a car outside and they sped away together.
There are multiple plaintiffs in this consolidated Cook County taxpayer derivative action filed by residents of Lemont-Bromberek Combined School District 113A. There are also multiple defendantscertain officers and employees of the district, current and former members of its board of education, the surety company which issued the bond for the districts treasurer, and the accounting firm which performed audits.
In 2006, a group of men beat another man to death in the area of Parkside and Waller in Chicago. An elderly resident of the neighborhood testified for the State as to his observation of what occurred, and he identified this defendant in a lineup a few days after the crime, but, at trial, he was unable to pick the defendant out in the courtroom. Simpson was found guilty by a Cook County jury and received a sentence of 36 years and six months.
Marriage dissolution proceedings in Cook County were initiated in 2013 by the husband here, who sought joint custody of the couples three minor children. The dissolution was finalized in 2014, superseding an earlier order concerning the children which had been entered while the case was pending.
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