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Recent News About Judicial Inquiry Board

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  Cook County Judge Flanagan to face investigation over handcuffing of attorney at May hearing

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Tuesday, Jun 11, 2024 @ 9:04pm

  Cook County's courts leadership has asked the state's Judicial Inquiry Board to examine potential disciplinary action against Cook County Circuit Judge Kathy Flanagan for her conduct amid a dispute with a lawyer in her courtroom which resulted in the lawyer being handcuffed to a chair. Flanagan denied wrongdoing

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  JIB complaints have resulted in 10 censures, 25 reprimands since creation in 1970

  By The Cook County Record | Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019 @ 7:00am

  SPRINGFIELD – Some judges fall to the Judicial Inquiry Board (JIB), some rise above it, and some suffer consequence in a single word.

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