Fri Mar 22, 2024 ‐ Municipal Law News
Copying Cryns: Illinois Supreme Court Reaffirms that Courts Have No Discretion to Balance the Equities When Injunctive Relief Is Authorized by Statute
City of Rock Falls v. Aims Industrial Services, LLC, 2024 IL 129164 The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the trial court erred when it denied a city’s petition for injunctive relief authorized by municipal ordinance because doing so stepped into […]Mon Mar 18, 2024 ‐ General
Low Bar for Probable Cause Affirmed in Moorer v. Chicago
An eyewitness to a crime can be a gift to law enforcement investigations – but even the presence of an eyewitness will not always lead to a guilty verdict. One positive eyewitness identification can, however, formulate probable cause to initiate […]Tue Mar 12, 2024 ‐ Municipal Law News
Attenuation Prevents the Exclusion of Incriminating Statements due to Significant Intervening Circumstances and a Lack of Police Misconduct
United States v. Cade, 2024 WL 767546 (7th Cir. 2024) The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals applied the attenuation doctrine when considering a motion to suppress incriminating statements and found that a vehicle search was legal because officers saw an […]Fri Mar 8, 2024 ‐ Legal Resources
2023 FOIA and OMA Transparency Reporter
Welcome to the 2023 FOIA and OMA Transparency Reporter, provided by Klein, Thorpe, and Jenkins, Ltd. The area of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) and the Open Meetings Act (“OMA”) saw many legislative changes, judicial interpretations, and Public Access […]