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This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
The Supreme Court of Illinois is the state supreme court, the highest court of the judiciary of Illinois.The court's authority is granted in Article VI of the current Illinois Constitution, which provides for seven justices elected from the five appellate judicial districts of the state: three justices from the First District (Cook County) and one from each of the other four districts.
Albert B. George: [7] [8] First African American male judge in Illinois (1924) Bernard P. Barasa: [9] First Italian American male judge in Illinois (c. 1920s) James K. Chelos: [10] [11] [12] First Greek American male judge in Illinois (1952) David Cerda: [13] First Latino American male judge in Illinois (1965) and serve on the Illinois ...
The Illinois circuit courts are trial courts of original jurisdiction. There are 24 judicial circuits in the state, each comprising one or more of Illinois' 102 counties. [1] [2] Six circuits comprise solely of a single county; these are Cook, Kane, Will, DuPage, Lake, and McHenry. [3] The other 18 circuits each contain between two and 12 counties.
The majority of the judges (18 in the First District, and between seven and nine in each of the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Districts) are elected, with the remaining judges having been appointed by the Supreme Court of Illinois. [4] Civil cases appealed from the Illinois Appellate Court are heard by the Supreme Court of Illinois upon the ...
An associate judge can hear any case, except criminal cases punishable by a prison term of one year or more, unless the associate judge has received approval from the Chief Judge of the respective circuit court to hear other criminal cases. [1] Circuit judges in a circuit elect one of their members to serve as chief judge of the circuit court ...
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Tribal Court of the Crow Indian Reservation (c. 1980) Montana: deceased: Patricia Lenzi (St. Regis Mohawk Tribe) [36] Court of Appeals, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe (2012– ; Chief Judge: 2020) California: active: Brad Letts [37] North Carolina 30th Judicial District Court (2000–2019) North Carolina: retired: Gilbert M. Lopez [38] [39]