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The previous Illinois Supreme Court district map (left) is pictured next to the newly drawn map that was signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last week. The state’s high court will delay its transition to implement the new appellate court boundaries. – Illinois Courts

State high court pauses transition to new appellate districts

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Supreme Court will delay its transition to implement new appellate court boundaries that were created by a recently approved judicial district map until further notice.
By Sarah Mansur
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New ITLA president charts course for term

Initially, I want to express how honored I am to have the privilege of serving as president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Our organization has a long history of protecting the legal rights of those individuals and families who have been harmed by negligent conduct.
By Special to the Daily Law Bulletin
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Pritzker signs redistricting plans for state legislative, appellate court districts

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a pair of bills Friday that redraw state legislative and appellate court districts, despite the fact that official U.S Census data needed to ensure equal representation has not yet been delivered.
By Peter Hancock

Trial Notebook

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Judges disagree on anticommandeering doctrine

An attack on the Indian Child Welfare Act generated 300 pages of dueling opinions during en banc review by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, including a debate between Judges James L. Dennis and Stuart Kyle Duncan about whether ICWA imposes obligations on state agencies and courts that violate the 10th Amendment’s anticommandeering doctrine.
By Steven P. Garmisa

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J. Matthew Dudley speaks to the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association on June 4 after being installed as president of the organization. Dudley aims to continue growing the diversity within ITLA and highlights the gains made in its women’s and minority caucuses.
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New ITLA president charts course for term
Retired Madison County Circuit Court Judge Barbara Crowder was sworn in as president of the Illinois Judges Association by former Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier on June 4 during its annual meeting. The group, which was founded in 1972, represents 1,250 active and retired Illinois state court judges.
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IJA aims to narrow civil justice gap
A view of Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox, during a game against the Detroit Tigers in 2021. A lawsuit against the team and Major League Baseball from a man who was hit by a foul ball in 2018 while sitting outside the protective netting can move forward, according to Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathy M. Flanagan. In 2019, the White Sox extended the protective netting to cover foul pole to foul pole.
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Lawsuit against White Sox ruled in play
Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa member Staci Balbirer sits on the porch at her Glencoe home. Balbirer always knew she wanted to be a family law attorney and has continued to expand her profile in her practice by taking on a 2020 Hague Convention case involving an Ecuador man filing suit against his wife who brought their children to Illinois.
Jun
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Family law attorney tackles new challenges
An elevated walkway from the Miami-Dade County Pre-Trial Detention Center to the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building is shown on June 4. By the middle of 2020, the number of people in jails nationwide was at its lowest point in more than two decades, according to a new report by the Vera Institute of Justice. The group’s researchers collected population numbers from about half of the nation’s 3,300 jails to make national estimates. But the numbers have begun creeping back up again as courts are back in session and the world begins returning its new normal.
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COVID emptied jails. Should that remain?