Our friend, Samuel Partida Jr., has posted the April case law update. If you’re not familiar with Mr. Partida’s blog, he posts the most important criminal cases in Illinois each month. By following the link to his blog, you’ll see … Continue reading
Last week, Laura Law wrote a blog post about a constitutional challenge to new DUI laws in North Dakota and Minnesota. There are two cases, Birchfield v. North Dakota and Bernard v. Minnesota, which present the questions posed by … Continue reading
The other day, while looking through the Illinois Criminal and Motor Vehicle Law book, I stumbled upon something interesting: a list of all the available specialty license plates in Illinois. Everyone’s seen a car around with specialty plates before; they’re … Continue reading
The newspaper.com published an insightful article regarding the contesting of new DUI laws in North Dakota and Minnesota. The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether the law is constitutional. See below for the full article: US Supreme Court To … Continue reading
The Supreme Court has overturned an Appellate Court’s decision that blocked a police officer from suing for a First Amendment violation. A police officer in New Jersey was demoted by his superiors for, what they believed to be, engaging in … Continue reading
Lauralaw gives a shout out to attorney Robert LaPier for posting this interesting article for all DUI and Traffic attorneys and their clients, discussing a new Idaho case, Idaho v. Ebersole in which the Court of Appeals refused to allow … Continue reading
Last night, Jake Arrieta did the unthinkable – he threw his SECOND NO HITTER IN ELEVEN STARTS. I’m sorry for yelling, but I’m excited. In the kerfuffle that followed, as Jason Heyward put the squeeze on the 27th out, a … Continue reading
WQUAD published an article regarding the recent passage of a bill in the senate that would further decriminalize marijuana in Illinois. Read the full article below: Illinois Senate votes to decriminalize possession of up to 10 grams of marijuana POSTED 4:56 PM, … Continue reading
If you’ve been following our blog, we recently wrote a post regarding the removal of the lockers used for cell phones at the Leighton Criminal Courts building. On April 1st, all the cell phone lockers were removed from Leighton due … Continue reading
The March case law update is in! Our friend, Samuel Partida Jr., has uploaded the most important cases in Illiniois for March to his blog. If you’ve never been to Mr. Partida’s site or viewed his wonderful case law updates you … Continue reading
