by Randal Birkey | Dec 12, 2014 | Local Government Law Bulletin, Timothy J. Clifton, Uncategorized
The Illinois Legislature recently voted to override Governor Quinn’s veto of HB3796, which went into effect immediately (Dec. 3, 2014). This bill offers two different types of relief to units of local government in responding to Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”)...
by Randal Birkey | Dec 12, 2014 | Anthony J. Sassan, Local Government Law Bulletin, Uncategorized
With the recent police shootings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, as well as the death by strangulation of Eric Garner at the hands of city police officers in New York City, comes a renewed national debate —...
by Randal Birkey | Dec 4, 2014 | Local Government Law Bulletin, Uncategorized, William C. Westfall
The case of People v. Timmsen addressed whether a police officer had reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle that made a lawful U-turn within 50 feet of a police safety checkpoint. At play were an individual’s right to privacy versus the...
by Randal Birkey | Dec 2, 2014 | Local Government Law Bulletin, Ruth Alderman Schlossberg, Uncategorized
As we enter December and the end of tax levy season, we remind you that state statute requires your levy ordinance to specify “in detail in the manner authorized for the annual appropriation ordinance or budget of the municipality, the purposes for which the...
by Randal Birkey | Nov 18, 2014 | Kelly A. Cahill, Local Government Law Bulletin, Uncategorized
In the recent case of Bowman v. Chicago Park District, the First District Appellate Court reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment finding that a thirteen year old was not the intended user of a slide, where an ordinance prohibited children twelve and over...
by Randal Birkey | Nov 18, 2014 | Jonathan M. Feinstein, Local Government Law Bulletin, Uncategorized
WISAM 1, Inc. v. Ill. Liquor Control Comm’n, 2014 IL 116173 (2014) In this recent case, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the Appellate Court’s ruling that the decision of the deputy local liquor control commissioner of the City of Peoria (Local Commissioner)...
