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After graduation, she became a law clerk for Judge Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 1972 to 1975, Lefkow was a staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. After that, she served as an administrative law judge for the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission from 1975 ...
In 2005, an assailant broke into the Chicago home of Judge Joan Lefkow of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and murdered the judge's husband and mother there. The suspect committed suicide, leaving a suicide note containing a confession and stating that he had planned to murder the judge. [16]
The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first. The age restrictions are waived if no members of the court would otherwise be qualified for the position. When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known ...
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It's good practice to add categories for the specific kinds of case law the case represents. The categorization structure is a mess, but Category:United States federal case law is pretty much top-level. The template automatically adds the appropriate Chief Justice category, but remember that not all of their tenures were contiguous. Sometimes ...
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's federal election interference case on Tuesday granted special counsel Jack Smith's request to file a 180-page brief on presidential immunity ...
Special counsel Jack Smith blasted a recent order by the judge in the classified documents case against Donald Trump, saying her request for jury instructions is based on a “fundamentally flawed ...
In print, a digest works like an encyclopedia, in that the topics are listed in alphabetical order and printed on the spines. The "Descriptive Word Index" provides guidance as to the proper topics and key numbers. The digest system includes digests for the individual states (except for Delaware, Nevada and Utah).