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AUTHORITIES IGNORE KEY EVIDENCE IN RILEY FOX MURDER CASE
June 17th, 2010
Just hours after finding the body of 3 year old Riley Fox[pictured above] near a Will County, Illinois creek in 2004, investigators located two shoes less than 100 yards from the body. The shoes had been discarded by Scott Eby[pictured below] who recently confessed to the murder. Eby discarded the shoes because they had become muddy when he dragged the poor ch…
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NEW LEGISLATION AIMS TO REFORM ILLINOIS NURSING HOMES
June 7th, 2010
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin recently ran an article by Allision Petty about Illinois Senate Bill 326, which calls for significant reforms to be instituted in Illinois Nursing Homes. The legislation, no doubt prodded by a string of articles in the Chicago Tribune which described widespread physical and sexual abuse at Illinois nursing homes, is expected to b…
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SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES FINALLY CATCH UP TO CHICAGO DOCTOR
May 30th, 2010
The May 28,2010 Chicago Tribune had a disturbing story about how authorities failed to take action years ago when charges of sexual assualt were raised against a Chicago area gynecologist. The article, written by Megan Twohey, describes how in 2002, Dr. Bruce Sylvester Smith, allegedly sexually assaulted a patient during a pelvic exam. Immediately after leavin…
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Categories: CASES IN THE NEWS
COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE - A KINDER, GENTLER DIVORCE
May 21st, 2010
Shia Kapos had an interesting article in this week’s Crain’s Chicago Business on the “collaborative divorce”. Collaborative divorce started in Minnesota about 20 years ago. The objective of a collaborative divorce is to expedite the divorce process, while minimizing the drama and dollars associated with the traditional divorce. Here is…
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Categories: IN THE NEWS
JURY AWARDS $18.5 IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN SEX ABUSE CASE AGAINST BOY SCOUTS
May 4th, 2010
Wow – for some reason I didn’t see this. In my April 23 2010 post, I discussed the $1.4 million dollar jury verdict against the Boy Scouts of America. The verdict, on behalf of plaintiff Kerry Lewis, represented only the compensatory damages for the sexual abuse he endured back in the 1980’s at the hands of Scoutmaster Timur Dykes[pictured be…
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Categories: CASES IN THE NEWS
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL RIPS NICOR INSURANCE PROGRAM
May 3rd, 2010
As reported by Steve Daniels in the May 3, 2010 issue of Crain’s Chicago Business, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is unhappy with Nicor. Madigan is claiming that Nicor’s gas pipe repair service insurance is a rip-off. The insurance plan, officially known as ComfortGuard, covers the cost of repairing gas pipes in customer homes. According to…
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Categories: IN THE NEWS
SHOCKING FACTS IN BOY SCOUT SEX ABUSE TRIAL
April 13th, 2010
A Portland, Oregon jury recently awarded compensatory damages of $1.4 million to Kerry Lewis, 38[pictured above] in his sexual abuse trial against the Boy Scouts of America[BSA]. The abuse had taken place in the 1980’s when Lewis was a young boy. The verdict, in light of the evidence, is hardly surprising. Lewis was a member of a Boy Scout troop sponsore…
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Categories: CASES IN THE NEWS
SOME HELPFUL HINTS FOR JUDGES
April 12th, 2010
One of my favorites legal writers, Kenneth P. Nolan had a great Sidebar column in the April issue of the Litigation, the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Journal. The column offered some advice to judges on how to run a courtroom. The column should be read in its entirety[as all of Nolan’s columns should]. With apologies to Mr. Nolan, I off…
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Categories: WORDS OF WISDOM
ILLINOIS HOME REPAIR AND REMODELING ACT - PART DEUX
March 30th, 2010
In Behl v. Gingerich, the Fourth Appellate District of Illinois recently weighed in on what constitutes “substantial compliance” with the Illinois Home Repair and Remodeling Act[“the Act”]. In the summer of 2006, defendant Gingerich approached John Behl[d/b/a Behl Construction] about doing some work at the Gingerich home. Defendant Ging…
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Categories: ILLINOIS LAW
ILLINOIS COURT SLICES CHIROPRACTOR'S HOURLY FEE
March 23rd, 2010
Very interesting decision recently handed down from the Illinois First District Appellate Court. Chiropractors aren’t going to like this one In Montes v. Mai, plaintiff Montes was a passenger in a car that was struck by a Mai’s vehicle. Dr. Fernando Perez, a chiropractor with Neck and Back Clinic in Chicago provided treatment to the plaintiff. The…
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