Case law

Cantrall v. Great American Casualty Co.

256 Ill. App. 47 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Feb 3, 1930

The evidence clearly establishes that the insured had been a steady workman for about 12 years and there is no evidence that he had ever lost any time from his work on account of illness except that at one time more than … We think to hold that such rights may be established by contract is carrying it to unwarranted extremes.”

Nourse v. The City of Chicago

75 N.E.3d 397 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Mar 24, 2017

Sections 2-105 and 2-207 would thus appear to clearly protect the City from suit for Mr. Carter’s conduct during the inspection of the elevators. … The City thus met its initial burden of establishing that the immunity provisions of section 2-105 and 2-207 applied. ¶ 33 In response, plaintiffs presented no evidentiary support to refute a conclusion that Mr.

Case v. Forloine

203 Ill. Dec. 256 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Sep 30, 1993

Plaintiffs appeal from this ruling, contending that: (1) the evidence established that defendants never applied for or took reasonable steps to obtain a mortgage within the time frame set forth in the mortgage contingency … For a finding or judgment to be against the manifest weight of the evidence, an opposite conclusion must be clearly evident. (In re Estate of Elson (1983), 120 Ill. App. 3d 649, 655 , 458 N.E.2d 637, 642 .)

People Ex Rel. Loughry v. Board of Education

342 Ill. App. 610 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Apr 6, 1951

Such boards are vested with a high discretion, and its abuse must appear very clearly before the courts will interfere.” … There is no allegation in the petition that the persons who assisted a member of the Board in the conduct of the oral examination here involved were not qualified and experienced to render such assistance.

McNamara v. City of Chicago

959 F. Supp. 870 · District Court, N.D. Illinois · Mar 18, 1997

The uncontroverted evidence establishes that Commissioner Robert J. … A limited number of out of rank promotions to fully qualified candidates was a modest remedy for this unlawful conduct.

United States v. Fujii

152 F. Supp. 2d 942 · District Court, N.D. Illinois · Sep 29, 2000

The government has declined to offer the Chinese nationals immunity. They are, therefore, unavailable to the defense. … penal interest under Rule 804(b)(3) and additionally pursuant to Rule 807. 1 Analysis The proponent of an out-of-court statement, proffered for admission under Rule 804(b)(3), bears the burden of showing that the statement qualifies

Moore-Fotso v. Board of Education

211 F. Supp. 3d 1012 · District Court, N.D. Illinois · Sep 29, 2016

In light of these facts, Plaintiff not satisfied her burden of establishing that she is a “qualified individual” under the ADA. See E.E.O.C. v. … Failure to Accommodate Because Plaintiff fails to establish that she is a qualified individual within the meaning of the ADA, the Court need not address the merits of her failure to accommodate claim.

Armstrong v. United Insurance Co. of America

98 Ill. App. 3d 1132 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Jul 30, 1981

He admitted on cross-examination that the mere fact somebody was unemployed did not necessarily mean they would not qualify for insurance. … The words of the receipt do not clearly counter this assumption.

Parker v. Harper

District Court, N.D. Illinois · Aug 6, 2018

’s qualified immunity argument. … “Qualified immunity attaches when an official’s conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” White v. Pauly, --- U.S. ----, 137 S.

Goodman v. Ward

397 Ill. App. 3d 875 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Jan 14, 2010

However, the court went on to say: "it would seem logical that under section 11, if the unit that selects the judge is the circuit, then any person otherwise qualified who lives anywhere in the circuit is qualified. … Consequently, Section 11 does not expressly answer the question whether residency in the selection district must be established at the time petitions are filed.

Jaskowski v. Rodman & Renshaw, Inc.

842 F. Supp. 1094 · District Court, N.D. Illinois · Jan 10, 1994

Whether her charge specifically referred to a glass ceiling or not, Jaskowski clearly intended to establish wage discrimination based on gender. … Indeed, it appears that Jaskowski would not have qualified for the position as advertised in the Wall Street Journal. 8 .

Winter v. Dibble

251 Ill. 200 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 20, 1911

We are satisfied with the conclusion of the chancellor that the instrument of November 20, 1880, was not established by the evidence. … Words added cannot be said to qualify an expression if the expression means the same thing with the words added as without. In Fowler v.

Ass'n of Franciscan Sisters of Sacred Heart v. County of Vermilion

304 Ill. App. 243 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Mar 11, 1940

Section 24 clearly establishes an obligation upon the county to pay for the medical and surgical expenses of those persons who are not technically paupers, but who are nevertheless unable to pay the necessary expenses of … Qualifying words are made applicable to those preceding and not extended to the following words, unless such extension or inclusion is clearly required by the intent and meaning of the context or disclosed by an examination

Kritzen v. Flender Corp.

226 Ill. App. 3d 541 · Appellate Court of Illinois · Mar 13, 1992

Holdren had believed that an employee would need to be terminated to qualify for the COBRA benefit. … That communication was under circumstances that made the alleged policy both clearly directly related to the communication and clearly important to the plaintiffs.

Elliott v. University of Illinois

365 Ill. 338 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 16, 1936

People, 121 Ill. 84 : “This proviso does not confer upon the ten years’ practitioners any special privilege, immunity or franchise. It does not confer upon them anything — it leaves them as they are.” … We also held it clearly indicates that an office established by the constitution, with a different manner of filling such office than by the Governor’s appointment, is not subject to the portion of the section which provides

People ex rel. Phillips v. Board of Education

83 Ill. App. 2d 154 · Appellate Court of Illinois · May 17, 1967

County Board of School Trustees, 31 Ill 2d 121, 198 NE2d 848 , it held that school districts established under enabling legislation are subject entirely to the will of the legislature, and may, even without notice, be contracted … Clearly then, all of the relators herein qualified by the terms of said statute to attack the annexation of which they complain, and in fact several of the relators were parties to one or more of the petitions that were filed

Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Romano

426 F. Supp. 1123 · District Court, N.D. Illinois · Feb 15, 1977

Thus, these last statements in particular establish that the use of the terms “legal or equitable owner of real property or a chattel real” in section 406(6) was technical in nature and designed to make eligible for Chapter … Thus, an individual who owns nothing but securities such as common stock, and all his debts are secured by those stocks, would clearly be ineligible for any form of reorganization relief.

McCartney v. Osburn

118 Ill. 403 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 22, 1886

His children, both living and dead, were clearly in his mind when drawing his will. Their issue equally occupied his attention. … This view seems to be strongly confirmed by the use of the qualifying expression, “living at the time of said division,” in connection with the words, “heirs of Henrietta.”

People v. Hale

Appellate Court of Illinois · Dec 14, 2001

However, evidence of these two murders clearly conveyed the message that the Hale-Wessell twosome possessed a penchant for senseless bloodshed. … These various references to other crimes committed on April 1, 1998, clearly prejudiced the chance of acquittal.

People v. Sutton

Appellate Court of Illinois · Aug 14, 2007

in Zayas has determined that a previously hypnotized witness is virtually immune from effective cross-examination because having been hypnotized, the witness "gains complete confidence in his 'restored' memory, forgets … For a statement to qualify as a spontaneous declaration, three requirements must be met, (1) there must be an occurrence sufficiently startling to produce a spontaneous and unreflecting statement; (2) there must be an