Supreme Court of Illinois - May 2006 Opinion Summaries

People v. Caballes

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In the matter of a defendant found guilty of cannabis trafficking after a drug sniffing dog alerted officers to defendant's trunk during a routine...

People v. Brooks

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a conviction for predatory criminal sexual assault, summary dismissal of a postconviction petition is reversed where the 90-day period within which...

People v. Taylor

Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
A juvenile's convictions for attempted escape, aggravated battery, and aggravated unlawful restraint based on an incident that occurred while the...

Country Mut. Ins. Co. v. Livorsi Marine, Inc.

Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In an insurance coverage action arising from a trademark dispute where notice of the lawsuits was not given to the insurance company until after over...

People v. Price

Criminal Law & Procedure
Convictions on one of two counts of theft arising from the same set of circumstances are vacated where: 1) conviction under either theft count was...

Governmental Interinsurance Exch. v. Judge

Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a legal malpractice action arising from an auto accident, judgement in favor of defendant-attorneys is affirmed where the County could not have...

Hines v. Dep't of Public Aid

Elder Law, Health Law
In a claim for reimbursement of the Medicaid benefits made against the estate of the spouse of the Medicaid recipient, such a claim is not allowed...

In re Donald A.G

Family Law
In a matter of termination of parental rights based on depravity for a father convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault, the termination is...

In re Martinez-Fraticelli

Ethics & Disciplinary Code
In the matter of an attorney reinstatement petition from an attorney who was disbarred on consent after his 1997 federal conviction for "ghost...