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Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 (1972), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the fathers of children born out of wedlock had a fundamental right to their children. Until the ruling, when the mother of a child born out of wedlock was unable to care for the child, through death or other circumstances, the child was ...
Illinois's legal system is based on common law, which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court of Illinois and the Illinois Appellate Court. The official reporter for opinions of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Court are published on the website of the Illinois Supreme Court using a public domain case citation .
United States Reports, the official reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States. Case citation is a system used by legal professionals to identify past court case decisions, either in series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral style that identifies a decision regardless of where it is reported.
Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter.
L. Johnson / Operation of law: death 2 J. Waldo Ackerman: IL: 1926–1984 1979–1984 [Note 2] 1982–1984 — Ford / Operation of law: death 3 Harold Baker: IL: 1929–2023 1979–1994 [Note 1] 1984–1991 1994–2022 Carter / Operation of law: retirement 5 Richard Henry Mills: IL: 1929–2023 1985–1997 — 1997–2023 Reagan: death 7 ...
The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act is a uniform act enacted in some U.S. states to alleviate the problem of simultaneous death in determining inheritance.. The Act specifies that, if two or more people die within 120 hours of one another, and no will or other document provides for this situation explicitly, each is considered to have predeceased the others.
The judiciary of Illinois is the unified court system of Illinois primarily responsible for applying the Constitution and law of Illinois. It consists of the Supreme Court, the Appellate Court, and circuit courts. The Supreme Court oversees the administration of the court system.
Eisenhower/Operation of law: death 9 Omer Poos: IL: 1902–1976 1958–1973 1966–1972 1973–1976 Eisenhower: death 10 Robert Dale Morgan: IL: 1912–2002 1967–1979 1972–1979 — L. Johnson: reassignment to C.D. Ill. 11 James L. Foreman: IL: 1927–2012 1979–1992 [Note 3] 1979–1992 1992–2012 Nixon/Operation of law: death 12 ...