In this decision, the Illinois Supreme Court exercised its constitutional rulemaking authority to modify its procedural rules so as to allow the State to take an interlocutory appeal from an order granting a motion to suppress evidence in a juvenile delinquency proceeding.
In 2003, the Illinois legislature established a tax amnesty period which was 1 months long and which was to take place between October 1, 2003, and November 17, 2003. This enactment was called the Tax Delinquency Amnesty Act. Pursuant to this statute, all taxes due from as far back as 1983 through the first half of 2002 could be paid without the state seeking to collect any interest or penalties.
The plaintiff driver in this 2005 automobile accident was injured when she was going east on 95th Street in Oak Lawn to reach a doctors office. She attempted to turn left across three lanes of oncoming traffic. The two oncoming lanes closest to her stopped for her, but she collided with a vehicle in the curbside lane, which did not. It was a private ambulance driven by this defendant, who was making a nonemergency transfer of a patient from a hospital to a nursing home, without flashing lights or siren.