Supreme Court of Illinois - January 2008 Opinion Summaries

Hudson v. City of Chicago

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action where one of plaintiff's counts was dismissed and plaintiff took a voluntary dismissal without prejudice on the remaining...

Eagle Marine Indus. Inc. v. Union Pacific R.R. Co.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation
Injunction prohibiting defendant railroad from blocking a certain railroad crossing for more than 10 minutes should not have been issued and the...

Illinois Dep't of Healthcare and Family Servs. v. Warner

Family Law
In the matter of an agreed judgment of parentage whereby defendant was ordered to pay child support, denial of petition for vacation of the support...

State of Illinois v. Delton

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a conviction for two counts of aggravated battery of a police officer, summary dismissal of defendant's pro se postconviction petition is affirmed...

In re Lakisha M.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
In an adjudication of delinquency based on the felony offense of aggravated battery, application of the Illinois DNA indexing statute to require the...

The Vill. of Mundelein, v. Wisconsin Cent. R.R.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation
In the matter of a Wisconsin Central Railroad train that blocked a railroad crossing in the Village of Mundelein for over two and a half hours,...

Buenz v. Frontline Transp. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
In a personal injury action resulting from an automobile accident involving a tractor-trailer, order calling for trailer-owner COSCO to be indemnified...

People v. Mohr

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a conviction for second degree murder where the state conceded provocation as a mitigating factor and the judge gave an instruction on provocation,...

People v. Deleon

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Conviction and sentence for first degree murder and attempted first degree murder are affirmed over claims that: 1) defendant's attorney at...

Porter v. Decatur Mem'l Hosp.

Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice action, dismissal of plaintiff's second amended complaint, which was filed after the applicable limitation period had...