Supreme Court of Illinois Decisions 2024
Date: April 4, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129263
Docket Number: 129263
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the City of Joliet and five commercial truck drivers who were fined for violating city ordinances prohibiting overweight and/or overlength vehicles on nondesignated highways. The drivers challenged the…
Date: April 4, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129425
Docket Number: 129425
Justia Opinion Summary: The defendant, Korem M. Johanson, was found guilty of Class X felony predatory criminal sexual assault of a child following a bench trial in the circuit court of McHenry County. Before sentencing, Johanson argued that…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 127464
Docket Number: 127464
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerns a challenge to an Illinois statute that prohibits child sex offenders from living within 500 feet of a day care home. The plaintiff, Martin Kopf, who in 2003 had pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 127815
Docket Number: 127815
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, defendant Demetrius Gray was convicted of the offense of being an armed habitual criminal. The appellate court reversed this conviction, contending that the prosecution failed to prove that Gray had two…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128508
Docket Number: 128508
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves a dispute between a grain producer, Robert Miller, and the Illinois Department of Agriculture over compensation from the Illinois Grain Insurance Fund. The fund is intended to compensate grain…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128587
Docket Number: 128587
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, Shamar Griffin entered a guilty plea in the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois, to one count of first-degree murder in exchange for a 35-year sentence and the dismissal of additional charges. Several years…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128687
Docket Number: 128687
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the defendant, Clayton T. Marcum, was convicted of two counts of aggravated domestic battery and sentenced to consecutive prison terms of seven years on each count. Marcum appealed, arguing that his right…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129054
Docket Number: 129054
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois evaluated a case involving Jessica Logan, who was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of her 19-month-old son. Before her trial, Logan moved to suppress a video…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129227
Docket Number: 129227
Justia Opinion Summary: In a lawsuit between two competitors in the shipping logistics industry, Project44, Inc. and FourKites, Inc., Project44 alleged that FourKites agents sent defamatory emails to Project44's chief revenue officer and two…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129289
Docket Number: 129289
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois reviewed a case where a defendant, Ramon Torres, was convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of his four-year-old daughter. The State’s evidence included testimony that…
Date: March 21, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129402
Docket Number: 129402
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois considered an appeal by Emanuel Wells, who had entered a fully negotiated plea agreement with the state. Wells had pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of cannabis…
Date: March 8, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128935
Docket Number: 128935
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a minor identified as M.U., through her parents, filed a complaint against Team Illinois Hockey Club, Inc. and the Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois, Inc., alleging that they violated Section 5-102(A)…
Date: February 16, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128373
Docket Number: 128373
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois affirmed the lower courts' decisions denying Darrell Fair's claim of torture. Fair, who had been convicted of a felony, appealed the circuit court’s denial of his…
Date: February 1, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128492
Docket Number: 128492
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, Richard Huff, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, filed a pro se postconviction petition alleging that his life sentence was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey. The petition was…
Date: January 19, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128644
Docket Number: 128644
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court's decision, affirming the trial court's decision to allow the postconviction counsel to withdraw and to dismiss the postconviction petition. The…
Date: January 19, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 128763
Docket Number: 128763
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, the State of Illinois, represented by the Attorney General, alleged that Elite Staffing, Inc., Metro Staff, Inc., and Midway Staffing, Inc. (collectively,…
Date: January 19, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129133
Docket Number: 129133
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, the court deliberated on the admissibility of hearsay evidence under the forfeiture by wrongdoing exception. The defendant, Micheal D. Chatman, was charged…
Date: January 19, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129155
Docket Number: 129155
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arises from a prolonged divorce proceeding in Illinois. The appellant, Masud M. Arjmand, sought to dissolve his marriage to Muneeza R. Arjmand in 2009. In the course of the proceedings, the appellant filed…
Date: January 19, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129164
Docket Number: 129164
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, the City of Rock Falls filed a petition against Aims Industrial Services, LLC. The petition sought to enforce compliance with a City ordinance requiring the…
Date: January 19, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129277
Docket Number: 129277
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case under consideration, the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois affirmed the dismissal of Waukegan Hospitality Group, LLC's appeal by the appellate court due to lack of jurisdiction. Waukegan Hospitality…
Date: January 19, 2024
Citation: 2024 IL 129471
Docket Number: 129471
Justia Opinion Summary: In the state of Illinois, a group of active and retired members of local police and firefighter pension funds filed a complaint against the Governor and other officials, challenging the constitutionality of Public Act…
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