Appeal challenges stalking law’s constitutionality- Relying on the 2017 Illinois Supreme Court decision that struck down part of the criminal stalking statute as facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment, Lori W. DeBolt appealed from a plenary order of protection under the Stalking No Contact.
Trial court: "I understand that you have a first amendment privilege, but sometimes the first amendment privilege contravenes certain statutes that are enacted by the State .." Appellate court: That's "a misunderstanding of the relationship between statutes and constitutions."
Unclean hands doesn’t apply in stalking case - Deborah Ewing petitioned for a “stalking no contact order” against Trena and Melanie Gagliardo. Although the Gagliardos have their own list of grievances against Ewing, Sec. 85 of the Stalking No Contact Order Act prohibits “mutual stalking no contact.