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All discussions of public business are presumed to be open to the public, except for matters specifically exempted by law. OMA also requires public bodies to allow public comment at every meeting. Persons alleging a violation of FOIA or OMA may file a complaint with the PAC or the Illinois circuit courts.
The first Illinois statutes concerning public access to records involved county offices. A law enacted in 1887 granted public access to records in the possession of a county recorder, and other statutes granted access to records of a county clerk or board of supervisors. The courts also recognized the legislature's authority to grant access to ...
Edmund Ponce de Leon: [67] First Hispanic American male to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (2010) Kenneth Moy: [25] [26] First Asian American male appointed as Judge of the DuPage County Circuit Court (1996) Charles Willner (1876): [68] First Jewish male lawyer in Burlington, Illinois [Kane County ...
Initially, the court was not within any existing judicial circuit, and appeals from the court were taken directly to the United States Supreme Court. In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, 5 Stat. 176. [4]
PACER (acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic public access service for United States federal court documents. It allows authorized users to obtain case and docket information from the United States district courts , United States courts of appeals , and United States bankruptcy courts .
Any decision to conceal court records requires a sealing order. The right to access court records is also central to liberty: There is no conceivable way to exercise the Habeas Corpus right, deemed by the late Justice Brennan as "the cornerstone" of the United States Constitution, absent access to court records as public records. [citation needed]
(The Center Square) – The Snohomish County Council will soon vote on whether or not to increase its general property tax levy by 8% Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers’ proposed 2025-2026 ...
The counties of Hancock, McDonough, Peoria, Woodford, Livingston, and Iroquois, and all the counties in the said State north of them, shall compose one district, to be called the northern district of Illinois, and courts shall be held for the said district at the city of Chicago; and the residue of the counties of the said State shall compose ...