The Illinois Supreme Court rejected a Geneva restaurant’s appeal of a ruling that upheld Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s indoor dining ban in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Giacoletto
A class of property owners seek approval of their class action notice in an eight-year-old bid-rigging suit alleging several tax buyers participated in a scheme with former Treasurer Fred Bathon.
Attorney Steven Giacoletto of Collinsville filed the motion to approve class action notice on May 20 on behalf of the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs filed a previous notice of class action, but some defendants filed objections to the notice in July 2020. The suit has been stagnant since those filings.
Giacoletto wrote that the new class action notice addresses the previous objections.
The plaintiffs propose to inform putative class members by publishing the notice in a “newspaper of general circulation in Madison County.”
A coalition of attorneys and abuse survivors called for action Thursday after an appeals court paved the way for the possible release of Chicago’s most notorious figure in the priest sex abuse scandal.
Justice David Overstreet
SPRINGFIELD – Eleven counties will join the Fifth Judicial District’s existing 37 southernmost, if legislators adopt a map that Democratic leaders introduced on May 25.
Illinois has 102 counties.
The district would run 260 miles from Cairo to Hoopeston, and would absorb Decatur but wouldn’t capture the Capitol.
The Fifth Judicial District has been trending Republican since 2004 when voters elected Justice Lloyd Karmeier. He was retained in 2014 and retired last year, opening the way for Republican David Overstreet to win easily over Democrat Judy Cates in the 2020 general election.
Since Karmeier’s election, the Fifth District Appellate Court in Mt. Vernon has turned from a Democratic majority to a solid 5-2 Republican majority.
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Some lawyers have sure made a lot of money during this pandemic losing cases. It’s nice to see the Courts continue to rule to uphold these sorts of restrictions.
Did n’t we whack Kilbride so all the crazies could run wild in the Supreme Court? Wha happened?
I can’t help but wonder how many of these, for lack of a better word, griftees - think the purpose of a Supreme Court is to re-litigate a specific adjudicated decision they don’t agree with in a lower court.
Perhaps it would be helpful to teach this stuff in school. The Supreme Court decides matters of procedure and process, not merits. If the appellate court can’t be shown to have made an error in process in the submitted brief, there is no reason for a higher court to take it up simply on the reasoning that someone thinks the decision is wrong.