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The Supreme Court decision in Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892), reaffirmed that each state in its sovereign capacity holds title to all submerged lands within its borders and holds these lands in public trust. [1] This is a foundational case for the public trust doctrine.
[5] [6] The Supreme Court's 1977 ruling granted certiorari and reversed and remanded the Illinois Supreme Court's denial to lift the lower court's injunction on the NSPA's march. [7] In other words: the courts decided a person's assertion that speech is being restrained must be reviewed immediately by the judiciary. [ 8 ]
Case history; Prior: On appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky: Holding; Where a river is said to be the boundary between two states, the boundary properly extended to the low water mark of the opposite shore and no higher; plaintiff's motion of ejectment based on title granted by the state of Kentucky was denied.
Illinois Reports is the official reporter of the Illinois Supreme Court and the Illinois Appellate Courts. It is published by Thomson Reuters , under contract with the Illinois Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions .
Karmeier was born on January 12, 1940, in Washington County, Illinois. [1] After graduating as valedictorian from Okawville Community High School in 1958, [1] Karmeier received a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1962 and a J.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1964.
Civil cases appealed from the Illinois Appellate Court are heard by the Supreme Court of Illinois upon the grant of a Petition for Leave to Appeal under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 315, [9] a Certificate of Importance under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 316, [10] or a Petition for Appeal as a Matter of Right under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 317 ...
Thomas Joseph Moran (July 17, 1920 – September 14, 1995) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1976 to 1992. Born in Waukegan, Illinois , Moran served in the United States Coast Guard from July 1943 to June 1945.
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.