Yesterday, we reviewed the year-by-year data on the State's appearances as appellant and respondent in criminal cases from 1994 to 2016.

Yesterday, we analyzed whether it's possible to infer Justice Thomas' vote and whether or not he's writing an opinion based upon the pattern of his questions in criminal cases.

The City of Chicago levies a tax on the lease or rental of personal property within the City or the privilege of using personal property leased elsewhere in the City.

Last week, we reviewed the government's record in civil and criminal appeals. This week, we begin our review of which Districts of the Court of Appeal have produced the most civil cases each year.

In a 5-3 decision in Bank of America Corp. et al. v. City of Miami, Florida (No. 15-1111 and No. 15-1112, May 1, 2017), the United States Supreme Court held that the City of Miami ("City") was an...

Last week, we analyzed the pattern of Justice Kilbride's questions in oral arguments in civil cases, asking whether it's possible to infer who Justice Kilbride will vote for and whether or not...

An Anthropologist on Mars is the title of Oliver Sacks' 1993 influential essay on Temple Grandin — an essay that introduced Ms. Grandin and autism more generally to a broad audience.

In December 2016, it came to light that the Chicago-based law firm of Johnson & Bell had been sued in a purported class action lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Yesterday, we reviewed who averaged the most amicus support in civil cases between 1994 and 2005 – winning parties, losers, or parties who won only in part.

This week, we begin a dual project on the Illinois Supreme Court Review and the California Supreme Court Review – comparing the two states' experience with automatic appeals of death penalty verdicts.

Yesterday, we began looking at governmental entities' won-loss record in civil cases by area of law.

As the frequency of data breaches continues, so do legislative developments on notification requirements that must be met in the event of a breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

The Court has decided forty-five civil cases which originated in the First District.

For the past several weeks, we've been comparing the death penalty jurisprudence of the Illinois and California Supreme Courts.

Last week, we began reviewing the trial courts from which the state Supreme Court's civil and criminal dockets arise year by year, both here and over on our sister blog the Illinois Supreme Court Review.

Yesterday, we reviewed the data about how the Court's criminal docket has been divided between cases in which the State was the appellant and defense appeals.

For the past two weeks, we've been reviewing which trial courts, year by year, have produced the Court's civil and criminal dockets.

In 2005, the Court decided twenty-five civil cases from Cook County.

Earlier this week, we began our review of the Illinois Supreme Court's record with death penalty appeals between 1990 and the abolition of the death penalty in 2011.

Last week, we began reviewing the trial courts from which the Court's civil and criminal dockets have arisen, beginning with the years 1990 through 1994.