This Lake County litigation arises from an ex-wifes failure to receive child support. The defendant is the ex-husbands employer, a company for which he worked until May of 2010. In 2009 dissolution proceedings, he was ordered to pay $600 every two weeks.
This mortgage foreclosure case comes from Du Page County and involves a residential property located in Naperville. In 2009, defendant McCluskey executed a promissory note for $330,186, on the property, with Wells Fargo Bank as the mortgage holder. Foreclosure proceedings were begun in 2010 for nonpayment, but defendant, after service, did not answer or plead. An order of default and judgment of foreclosure were entered in 2011.
In Madison County, a company known as WRB owns the Wood River Petroleum Refinery. Hoping to secure preferential tax assessments under the Property Tax Code, WRB applied to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to have several newly made renovations at the refinery certified as pollution control facilities. Ultimately, on that agencys recommendation, the Pollution Control Board granted the requested certifications as to 28 separate facilities.
Plaintiff, Hartney Fuel Oil Company, is a retailer of fuel oil with a home office in Forest View, in Cook County. During the tax period in question, January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2007, Hartney accepted purchase orders in the Village of Mark, in Putnam County, through a local business with which it contracted. No Hartney employees were involved there. By structuring its sales in this way, Hartney avoided liability for the retail occupation taxes of Cook County, the Village of Forest View, and the Regional Transportation Authority. Hartneys interpretation of the law was that there is a bright-line test that the situs of a sale is where the seller accepts a purchase order, in this case, the Village of Mark. This position was consistent with the regulations which were published at the time.
The Village of Bement, in Piatt County, uses a company known as E.R.H. Enterprises, Inc., to assist in fulfilling its obligation to operate and maintain the Villages potable water facility and parts of the water delivery infrastructure. The company has a five-year contract. In 2008, the Department of Labor issued a subpoena to defendant companys attorney seeing employment records and other documents as part of an investigation under the Prevailing Wage Act. After unsuccessful attempts to secure compliance, the Department filed a verified complaint for an adjudication of civil contempt against E.R.H., seeking enforcement of the subpoena.
The ability of out-of-state merchants to make sales to Illinois consumers without collecting and remitting sales or use taxes to the State of Illinois caused Illinois retailers, large and small, to ask the state legislature to level the playing field. The result was a taxing statute that became effective in 2011 and which has been called the click-through nexus law.
This Cook County appeal decides an evidentiary question in a criminal case. No trial has yet occurred. Budimir Radojcic, two daughters of his, his attorney Mark Helfand, and Christa Patterson, the office manager of one of his companies, were indicted by a grand jury of 52 financial crimes. In 2009, after discovery, the State indicated its intent to call Helfand as a witness in exchange for use immunity.
This mortgage foreclosure case comes from Du Page County and involves a residential property located in Naperville. In 2009, defendant McCluskey executed a promissory note for $330,186, on the property, with Wells Fargo Bank as the mortgage holder. Foreclosure proceedings were begun in 2010 for nonpayment, but defendant, after service, did not answer or plead. An order of default and judgment of foreclosure were entered in 2011.
In Madison County, a company known as WRB owns the Wood River Petroleum Refinery. Hoping to secure preferential tax assessments under the Property Tax Code, WRB applied to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to have several newly made renovations at the refinery certified as pollution control facilities. Ultimately, on that agencys recommendation, the Pollution Control Board granted the requested certifications as to 28 separate facilities.
This Lake County litigation arises from an ex-wifes failure to receive child support. The defendant is the ex-husbands employer, a company for which he worked until May of 2010. In 2009 dissolution proceedings, he was ordered to pay $600 every two weeks.