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Illinois Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission to Receive Justice Innovation Award
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission) will be honored with the Justice Innovation Award by the Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH) at Bringing Justice Home on October 17th at Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago. -
Administrative Director Declares Two Illinois Associate Judges Appointed in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit
Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced that the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Ruth H. Lofthouse and James R. M. Newman as associate judges of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit. -
Administrative Director Declares Illinois Associate Judge Appointed in the Tenth Judicial Circuit
Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced today that the Tenth Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Nathan R. Bach as an associate judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. -
Illinois Supreme Court Creates Remote Proceedings Task Force
Illinois Supreme Court Creates Remote Proceedings Task Force. -
22 new judges selected to serve on Cook County Court bench
Roster of new judges includes five former Cook County judges and six lawyers serving in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office -
Illinois Supreme Court Names Leadership For Statewide Pretrial Services
Illinois Supreme Court Names Leadership For Statewide Pretrial Services. -
Wife of House Speaker Welch among 246 Chicago area lawyers seeking to be appointed judge
Cook County's elected judges will ultimately select 10 people to appoint as associate judges in the county's court system. The list of candidates includes many from government agencies, and others with ties to politically powerful current and former elected officials. -
ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT: Administrative Director Declares Two Illinois Associate Judges Appointed in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit
Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced that the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Louis B. Aranda and Demetrios N. Panoushis as associate judges of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. -
Cook County Circuit Court selects 15 to be appointed associate county judges
Six current judges have been reselected, and nine lawyers selected, by Cook County's elected circuit judges to serve as the county's newest associate judges. -
Judicial board says DuPage judge lied to cops about bullet, retaliated vs. women for harassment complaints
The Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board is alleging a DuPage County judge retaliated against two courthouse employees for accusing him of sexual harassment and repeatedly lied to police and the board, in a separate matter, about firing a bullet through his apartment wall into an adjacent unit. -
African-American bar association questions lack of black candidates for Cook County sociate judge posts
The country's oldest association of African-American judges has decried the most recent selection of associate judges to the Cook County Circuit Court for lack of diversity, saying the lack of new black judges means the county's bench is moving away from resembling the community it serves. -
Cook County Circuit Court selects 16 to serve as associate judges; 17th selection headed to runoff balloting
Five current associate judges and 11 lawyers will take the bench in Cook County this summer, after the Cook County Circuit Court’s 252 elected circuit judges selected them to be appointed to serve as associate judges, filling vacancies in local courtrooms until at least next summer. -
Cook Courts Clerk appeal: Federal judge wrongly stepped into dispute over public access to court files
Moments after a Chicago federal judge chided her for creating a system designed to take an “end-run” around the First Amendment’s guarantee of public access to public information, the clerk of Cook County’s courts has asked a federal appeals court to put a hold on the judge's order and further remove the matter from the judge’s consideration entirely. -
IL Supreme Court gives Cook County six more months to complete case e-filing transition work
Cook County's courts have been given an additional six months to bring their civil case filing systems into alignment with a statewide electronic case filing system required by the Illinois Supreme Court, despite comments from Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown just weeks earlier they would be ready to meet a Jan. 1 deadline. -
Illinois Supreme Court to hear arguments at Benedictine University in Lisle in May
SPRINGFIELD–Citizens in the DuPage County area will get a rare public opportunity to see the Illinois Supreme Court in action as it will hear oral arguments in one civil case and one criminal case on the campus of Benedictine University in Lisle. The event, scheduled for May 19, is the first time in two years that the Court has heard oral arguments outside of Springfield or Chicago and this program will mark the first time that it will have heard arguments at an educational institution. -
13 judges appointed to Cook County Circuit bench, will begin serving June 1
The Cook County Circuit Court will soon have 10 new names and faces on the bench, after the county’s existing judges voted to approve the appointment of a new batch of associate judges within the circuit. -
Court user survey measures perceptions of Illinois court system
The Illinois Supreme Court has released results of a survey that quantified court users’ experience and perception of court systems in counties across the state. -
Illinois circuit courts survey to evaluate perception and experience by court users
GarmanCourt users across the state will soon be given a unique opportunity that normally only comes around on election day - they will get a chance to judge the system.Between April 13 and May 1, detailed court user surveys designed to measure public perceptions and experiences will be distributed in the state's 24 Circuits across 102 counties.The Strategic Planning Committee of the Illinois Judicial -
Fees to file in Supreme, appellate courts will double Jan. 1
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