Supreme Court of Illinois - November 2002 Opinion Summaries

STROGER v. THE REG'L TRANSP. AUTH.

Constitutional Law, Elections, Transportation
Statutory provisions contained in the Regional Transportation Authority Act (Act), for appointment of boards of directors 1) are constitutional under...

PEOPLE v. ROE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Illinois truth-in-sentencing provisions of the Unified Code of Corrections applied to the offense of which defendant was convicted, and the trial...

PEOPLE v. PURCELL

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Code of Criminal Procedure section 110-4(b), requiring that certain defendants seeking pretrial bail bear the burden to establish that the proof of...

LYONS v. RYAN

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Only the Attorney General is empowered to represent the state in litigation when it is the real party in interest. Illinois Code of Civil Procedure...

IN RE CURTIS B.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law
Section 2-28(3) of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, which states that permanency orders may be immediately appealed as a matter of right under Supreme...

IN RE D.F.

Family Law
The trial court's judgment that respondent is unfit based on her substantial and continuous neglect of her children is not against the manifest weight...

MARION HOSP. CORP. v. THE ILLINOIS HEALTH FACILITIES PLANNING BD.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Health Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Where, at the time the appellate court issued its opinion, the medical facility in question had been built and the capital which defendant had...

CARTER-SHIELDS v. ALTON HEALTH INST.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Because the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine does not apply to a corporate entity which has been sanctioned by the legislature...