Illinois Immunity Law

Jacqueline Noto v. Mark A. Shlifk and Eric Weis

<h2> Yorkville, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued Gender Violence Act. </h2> Plaintiff filed her original complaint on April 24, 2023, against Weis and defendant Mark A. Shlifka. Her complaint alleged violations of the Act against Shlifka (count I), violations of the Act against Weis (count II), and reckless supervision against Weis (count III). On June... More...

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Michelle Giese v. Nathanial Boyce and City of Kankakee

<h2> Kankakee, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Defendant. </h2> Plaintiff alleged that, "[r]ight after she entered, Defendant Boyce, without provocation, pushed through the door, ran past another male firefighter, stormed toward Plaintiff." Boyce "began screaming right in her face and attacked her, picking her up by the straps of her oxygen harness, lifting her off her... More...

$0 (12-03-2024 - IL)

Stephanie Rein v. Walmart, Inc.

East St. Louis, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a premises liability negligence theory. This case was filed in the Circuit Court, Franklin County, Illinois, case number 22-LA-56, and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. (740 ILCS 130/1) Sec. 1. This Act is called and may be cited as the "Premises Liability Act". S... More...

$1 (03-20-2024 - IL)

Elizabeth Flores v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

Rock Island, Illinois personal injury slip and fall law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a premises liability Negligence theory. (740 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 80, par. 302) (Text of Section WITH the changes made by P.A. 89-7, which has been held unconstitutional) Sec. 2. The distinction under the common law between invitees and licensees as to the duty owed by an... More...

$0 (02-23-2024 - IL)

<h1> United States of America v. TIMOTHY MAPES </h1>

<h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a making false declaration before a grand jury and attempted obstruction of justice..</h2></center><h3><center> Former Chief of Staff to Speaker of the Illinois House Sentenced to Two and a Half Years in Federal Prison for Lying Under Oath ... More...

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United States of America v. Timothy Maples

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with f providing false material testimony under oath to a federal grand jury and attempting to obstruct its investigation into allegations of public corruption. A jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago found TIMOTHY MAPES, 68, of Springfield, Ill., guilty of one count of making false declarations before a grand jury ... More...

$0 (08-24-2023 - IL)

Phillip Rodriguez v. United States of America

Rockford, Illinois personal injury car wreck lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Federal Tort Claims Act negligence theory claiming to have suffered injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an motor vehicle accident caused by a federal government employee. This case was filed in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, 19LA000238, and was removed to federal co... More...

$1 (10-25-2022 - IL)

Bobbie Jo Scholz v. United States of America

<center><h2> Chicago, IL - Federal Tort Claims Act lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellant with pointing to government negligence as the cause of the drastic decline in her mental and physical state.</h2></center> Scholz was honorably discharged following her 2006 to 2008 tour of duty in Iraq for the United States Army, but the mental and phy... More...

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Dana Ludwig, as Independent Administrator of the Estate of BRENT LUDWIG, deceased v. United States of America

<center><h2> Chicago, IL - Federal Tort Claims Act lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellant who brought an action against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. </h2></center> This case arises from the August 2014 accidental death of Brent Ludwig, who drowned while hiking to Ramona Falls, a waterfall on the Sandy River in the Mount Ho... More...

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United States of America v. Ronnie Martin

<center><h2> Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing heroin with the intent to distribute charge.</h2></center> Ronnie Martin was sentenced to 43 months' imprisonment for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute. 21 U.S.C. Â§ 841(a)(1). With his direct appeal of his sentence pending, Martin moved for comp... More...

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United States of America v. Scott Ginsberg

<center><h2><center> Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a bank fraud charge. </h2></center> We view the trial evidence in the light most favorable to the government. United States v. Wade, 962 F.3d 1004, 1012 (7th Cir. 2020). In 2007, Scott Ginsberg learned of apartments changing into condominiums in Roselle, Ill... More...

$0 (12-11-2021 - IL)

Nathson Fields v. City of Chicago

<center><h2><center> Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellee with asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. Â§ 1983 and state law against the City of Chicago and individuals including several Chicago police officers as well as two former Cook County prosecutors. He claims they fabricated evidence and withholding exculpatory evidence in a criminal investigat... More...

$0 (12-08-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Demoney T. Coleman

Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with criminal contemp. Demoney T. Coleman, 22, of Peoria, Ill., was charged with criminal contempt after he disobeyed multiple court orders during the Bomb Squad trial, in November 2019, by refusing to answer questions by government attorneys but voluntarily answered all questions posed by defense counsel. Col... More...

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United States of America v. Sushil A. Sheth

<center> <img width="200" src="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/slideshows/slides/red_thing.jpg?itok=hejB-_CT"> </center> Dr. Sushil Sheth amassed significant wealth as a cardiologist, but, as he later admitted in a plea agreement, he did so in a scheme to overbill government and private insurers by approximately $13 million. In his p... More...

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Maurice Lewis v. City of Chicago, et al.

<center> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Dirksen_Federal_Building.jpg/200px-Dirksen_Federal_Building.jpg"> </center> Maurice Lewis spent more than two years in pretrial detention in the Cook County Jail based on police reports falsely implicating him for unlawfully pos-sessing a firearm. After the charges against him were dropped, Le... More...

$0 (01-23-2019 - IL)

Kevin R. Carmody v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, et al.

The University of Illinois fired plaintiff Kevin Carmody from his job as an information tech-nology manager after printed copies of a professor’s privi-leged emails suspiciously ended up in Carmody’s home newspaper box. The emails allegedly exposed inconsistencies in the professor’s testimony in a separate lawsuit that Car-mody was pursuing against a different professor. The univer- 2 No... More...

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Robert M. Kowalski v. Shauna Boliker

Robert Kowalski is dissatisfied with his treatment by judges and sheriff’s personnel during his divorce proceedings. He especially accuses an Illinois judge, Shauna Boliker, of engaging in extrajudicial efforts designed to prejudice the state court against him and in favor of her best 2 No. 17‐1952 friend, Kowalski’s wife. While Kowalski’s allegations are troubl... More...

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Edward Tobey v. Brenda Chibucos and Mary Stanton

One man’s extradition is another man’s “kidnapping.” Edward Tobey, the plaintiff here, has three state-court convictions (one in Illinois and two in Florida) for possession of child pornography. Tobey also has a penchant for resisting the conditions of probation placed upon him 2 Nos. 16-3927 & 16-4037 by courts and by his probation officer. In 2013, his tussles wit... More...

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Daniel Jackson v. Shawn Curry, et al.

Daniel Jackson spent time in custody on a wrongful murder conviction. He sued Shawn Curry and Keith McDaniel, the police officers who interrogated him, for coercing his confession. The officers moved for dismissal on qualified immunity. The district court denied that motion, and the officers appeal. Lacking jurisdiction, we dismiss this appeal. 2 No. 17-1898 I. Background1 On the night... More...

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City of Chicago, ex rel. Aaron M. Rosenberg v. Reflex Traffic Solutions, Inc. and Redflex Holdings, Ltd.

In this classic case of chutzpah, Aaron Rosenberg, a former employee of Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc. (RTSI), seeks a share of the proceeds his former employer paid the City of Chicago to settle the case against it arising out of the fraud Rosenberg helped perpetrate. In a thorough decision, the district judge concluded that Rosenberg was neither the original source of the ... More...

$0 (03-12-2018 - IL)

James Horton v. Frank Pobjecky, Gary Caruana and Winnebago County

Sixteen‐year‐old Michael DeAngelo Sago, Jr., and three other young men attempted to rob a pizzeria at gunpoint. Frank Pobjecky, an off‐duty police 2 No. 17‐1757 officer waiting for a pizza, shot and killed Michael.1 James Horton, as administrator of Michael’s estate, brought various federal and state claims against Pobjecky and others. The dist... More...

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John Lipsey v. United States of America, et al.

In this appeal, John Lipsey seeks relief on behalf of his minor daughter J.L., for tragic injuries suffered by J.L. at birth. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants, and Lipsey appeals that determination. The facts underlying the grant of summary judgment are set forth in detail in the district court opinion, and in relevant part are as follows. On Ju... More...

$0 (01-04-2018 - IL)

Larry Alexander, et al. v. Ingram Barge Company

At 5:33 in the evening on April 18, 2013, a 14‐barge tow pushed by the M/V Dale A. Heller was sucked into a powerful cross‐current and broke up. Some of the barges crashed (or allided, as mariners would say) into the Marseilles Dam; some sank; some were saved. The accident happened during record‐breaking rains and high water, and 2 No. 16‐4264 a ... More...

$0 (11-21-2017 - IL)

Charles Smith v. Paul Anderson

Charles Smith, a registered sex offender, was convicted of driving with a revoked license and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment followed by one year’s mandatory supervised release. To begin his supervised released— often called parole—Smith needed the Illinois Department of Corrections to approve a host site. On his release date Smith submitted two host sites. At... More...

$0 (10-31-2017 - IL)

Anthony D. Kolton and S. David Goldberg v. Michael W. Frerichs, Treasurer of Illinois

Anthony Kolton deposited money into an interest-bearing bank account in Illinois. Years passed without activity in the account, so the bank transferred Kolton’s money to the State of Illinois as the Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act requires. 765 ILCS 1025/13. The Act is not an escheat statute—it gives Illinois custody, not ownership, of “presumed abandoned” pro... More...

$0 (08-22-2017 - IL)

Kathleen Hagan v. Patrick J. Quinn

Plaintiffs are former arbitrators for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. In 2011, plaintiffs and another arbitrator brought a due process action challenging the implementation of House Bill 1698, a workers’ compensation reform statute that had terminated their sixyear appointments under prior law. The district court granted summary judgment for defendants, a... More...

$0 (08-17-2017 - IL)

People Of The State Of Ilinois v. Dicosola

The Attorney General filed against the defendant a complaint that included the following allegations. The defendant sold instructional DVDs, held seminars, andPage 2provided one-on-one consultations regarding bankruptcy and foreclosure laws. In May 2011, the Attorney General received information indicating that the defendant might be in violation of the Consumer Fraud Act (815 ILCS 505/1 et seq. (... More...

$0 (11-23-2015 - IL)

Derek J. Burton v. Michael Downey

Plaintiff‐appellee Derek J. Burton filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that members of the staff at the Jerome Combs Detention Center (“JCDC”) violated his constitutional rights while he was de‐ tained for eighteen months awaiting trial. The district court denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment, ruling that a reasonable ju... More...

$0 (10-08-2015 - IL)

George H. Dawson v. Michael Brown, Springfield Illinois, Police Department

Plaintiff-appellant, George H. Dawson (“Dawson”), filed a six-count complaint that included, among other claims, a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Officers Michael Brown and Chance Warnisher of the Springfield Police Department for use of excessive force. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants on all six counts. ... More...

$0 (10-07-2015 - IL)

Renee D. Gustafson v. William Adkins

In May 2007, defendant‐appellant William Adkins, a detective at the Jesse Brown Veterans Af‐ fairs (“VA”) Medical Center in Chicago, installed a hidden surveillance camera in the ceiling of an office used by female officers as a changing area. The camera captured images of female officers dressing and undressing. VA personnel dis‐ covered the covert su... More...

$0 (10-16-2015 - IL)

George Dawson v. Michael Brown

On the evening of December 14, 2011, Officer Steve Stirmell of the Jerome Police Department observed a white pickup truck speeding on Iles Avenue. Officer Stirmell followed the truck and activated his sirens. The driver of the truck, Greg Dawson (“Greg”), ignored the sirens and continued driving. As a result, Officer Stirmell radioed for assistance. Around 10:28 p.m., Officer Brown of the Spri... More...

$0 (10-11-2015 - IL)

Derek Burton v. Michael Downey

Burton was detained at the JCDC from September 23, 2009 to March 17, 2011, while he awaited trial and sentencing for charges of home repair fraud, false impersonation of a firefighter, and driving on a revoked license. Before his detention, Burton had been treated by Dr. Zumwalt, a primary care physician, for numerous health issues, inc... More...

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Dzevad Hurem v. Nickolas Tavares

In October 2010 Nasreen Quadri bought an apartment in the West Ridge area of Chicago. At some point thereafter, she learned that the police had investigated a disturbance there, and so in January 2011 she visited the apartment with her real estate agent and a locksmith. Quadri’s agent called 911 after the group found Dzevad 2 No. 14-1269 Hurem in the unit. Hurem told ... More...

$0 (07-14-2015 - IL)

Michael Seiser v. City of Chicago and Debra Kirby

Chicago police officer Michael Seiser was arrested and subjected to a breathalyzer examination after several witnesses reported seeing him drinking from an alcoholic beverage container while driving his personal vehicle. After the breathalyzer detected no alcohol in his bloodstream, he was cited for driving a motor vehicle with an open container of alcohol in the passenger ... More...

$0 (08-12-2014 - IL)

Lynette Wilson v. City of Chicago

This case arises out of the fatal shooting of Raul Barriera by a Chicago police officer. Barri-era's mother, Lynette Wilson, filed suit on behalf of herself and Barriera's estate against the City of Chicago and the of-ficers who were present at the scene: Andrew Hurman, Da-vid Cummens, and Donald Jerome. Wilson ultimately as-serted the following claims at trial: (1) a claim against the po-lice off... More...

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Dwayne Volkman v. Lee Ryker

Dwayne Volkman was employed as a casework supervisor at the Lawrence Correctional Center in Illinois when he called the local State's Attorney to comment 2 No. 12â€1778 on the criminal prosecution of a coâ€worker for violations of Illinois Law and Department of Corrections policy. After an internal investigation, Volkman received a written reprimand and was suspended for fi... More...

$0 (12-02-2013 - IL)

Herbert Williams v. City of Chicago

In the wee hours of November 18, 2009, plaintiff Herbert Williams was returning home from work. He smelled smoke, saw that his neighbor's house was on fire, and went to the porch of the burning home to bang on the door to rouse anyone who might be inside. Chicago police officers Matthew O'Brien and Joseph Byrne also spotted the smoke and found Williams on the porch. They soon arrested him on suspi... More...

$0 (10-24-2013 - IL)

Shaheen Zameer v. The City of Chicago

¶ 1 Summary judgment in defendant's favor was affirmed where there was insufficient evidence of either actual or constructive notice to the city of the height difference in the sidewalk prior to the plaintiff's fall. ¶ 2 The trial court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment. On appeal, plaintiff contends that summary judgment should be vacated because there was sufficient eviden... More...

$0 (08-28-2013 - IL)

Anthony Maniscalco v. Jay Simon

One evening in March 2007 Anthony Maniscalco hosted a birthday party for a local politician at his restaurant in Gurnee, Illinois. When the festivities ended, Maniscalco capped the night with two celebratory shots of PatrÃ³n tequila and a trip to a nearby McDonald's, where he encountered Fidel Castro 2 No. 11-2402 working at the drive-through window. Minutes before Maniscalco arriv... More...

$0 (04-05-2013 - IL)

Gabriela Arteaga v. United States of America

The plaintiff in this medical malpractice case is the mother of a child who was injured during birth. The district court dismissed the suit as barred by the provision of the Federal Tort Claims Act that requires that the claim on which a suit is based be filed with the appropriate federal 2 No. 12-3189 agency within two years after the claim arose. 28 U.S.C. Â§2401(b). ... More...

$0 (04-02-2013 - IL)