Supreme Court of Illinois

Where a mother did not seek a stay of an order terminating parental rights, and adoption orders had been in place for far more than one year before the appellate court filed its decision, the mother's challenges to the termination order are moot.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2003
• Published 06/10/2003

Judges

• Justice KILBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Evelyn G. Baniewicz, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee Goldfarb, Nancy Grauer Kisicki and Annette Collins, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick T. Murphy, Charles Perez Golbert, Deborah Pergament, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for appellee minors.