Illinois Appellate Court Decides Jurisdiction and Timeliness to File Motion
The Illinois Appellate Court for the First District affirmed a decision from the Circuit Court of Cook County, Probate Division. In this case, when James Cerami died on Jan. 16, 2013, he had been...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Reverses Order Regarding Supreme Court Rule 215...
The question in this case, which was posed to the Illinois Appellate Court, was: “Does the trial court have discretion to permit a Rule 215 medical examiner to testify when the attorney for the party...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Reverses a Second Judge’s Overturning of $9.9...
Frank Russo appealed from an order that wiped out his $9.9 million jury verdict against Corey Steel. In this case, the trial judge stepped aside during the post-trial proceedings and Corey Steel’s...
View ArticleInvestors in Ponzi Scheme Reversed the Cook County Order Granting Defendants’...
Six investors in Lancelot Investors, a Cayman Islands hedge fund, were suckered by the operator of a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. They sued Lancelot’s auditors in Cook County, where the offshore...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Finds Suburban Home Fits the “Office Definition” for...
An appellate court has ruled that Cook County is an appropriate venue for a lawsuit that involved a truck crash in Ohio and a company that primarily does its business out of a southern Illinois town....
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Affirms Competency of Wife to Serve as Administrator...
Margaret Decharinte, 93, was ruled to be competent to act as administrator of the estate of her late husband, Frank Decharinte. A hearing was conducted in 2018 hearing on objections made by her...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Issues Framework for Conducting Jury Selection...
In a recent order, the Illinois Supreme Court held that “remote jury selection by video conference … in civil cases is permissible to reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure so that litigants can access...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal of Personal Injury Lawsuit for...
The Illinois Appellate Court for the First District reversed and remanded a court decision from the Cook County Circuit Court. In this case, a car driven by Jamie Lichter was rear-ended by the vehicle...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Holds That Employer Could Be Negligent at the Same...
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed a dismissal by the appellate court and affirmed the circuit court judgment in a personal injury case in which the following issues were considered: whether an...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Reverses Appointment of an Administrator in an...
Marcellis Stinnette Sr. (“Marcellis Sr.”) was shot and killed by a Waukegan police officer on Oct. 20, 2020. At the time, Marcellis Sr. was in a car driven by Tafara Williams, the mother of his son,...
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