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The Illinois Appellate Court is the court of first appeal for civil and criminal cases rising in the Illinois Circuit Courts. In Illinois, litigants generally have a right to first appeal from final decisions or judgements of the circuit court.
In Love, the same court found that this same clause renders Kentucky's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. [2] Both decisions were stayed and consolidated upon appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral arguments in both cases on August 6, 2014. On November 6, the Sixth Circuit upheld Kentucky's ban on same-sex marriage.
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
Lawsuits in federal court followed, challenging the ban based on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and other grounds. Four cases in the Southern District of Illinois were conso
For a gun control law to pass constitutional muster, the government must show that the law is consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearms regulations,” a federal judge ...
During the 2016 Illinois judicial elections, she was elected to the Illinois First District Appellate Court, where she reviewed more than 1,800 trial court decisions and issued over 800 written opinions. [1] [2] During her tenure, she served as faculty for judicial education programs, training both trial and appellate judges. [1]
The appeals court took the case under advisement. Boch said regardless of how the case goes, it’s expected to go to the Illinois Supreme Court, and then possibly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Show ...
People v. Aguilar, 2 N.E.3d 321 (Ill. 2013), was an Illinois Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon (AUUF) statute violated the right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment.