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Soldal v. Cook County, 506 U.S. 56 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a seizure of property like that which occurs during an eviction, even absent a search or an arrest, implicates the Fourth Amendment. The Court also held that the Amendment protects property as well as privacy interests, in both ...
CHICAGO — The TV was turned to the news as the smell of bacon wafted from the kitchen after the sheriff’s police entered Michael Hallmon’s South Shore apartment on a chilly November morning.
Erik Henningsen's painting Eviction held by the National Gallery of Denmark.1892 RIC and Hussars at an eviction-Ireland 1888 Two men with children, being evicted, stand with their possessions on the sidewalk, circa 1910, on the Lower East Side of New York City. Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord.
Constructive eviction is a circumstance where a tenant's use of the property is so significantly impeded by actions under the landlord's authority that the tenant has no alternative but to vacate the premises. [1] The doctrine applies when a landlord of real property has acted in a way that renders the property uninhabitable. Constructive ...
Under state law, landlords can evict tenants if they are planning a "substantial remodel" of a unit. Long Beach housing advocate Maria Lopez saw it as a loophole in tenant protection law.
The office of Cook County Clerk was established in 1831, the year that Cook County, Illinois was created. For the first several years, the clerk was appointed by the three-member Cook County Board of Commissioners. This was changed, and it became an elected office with a four-year term in 1837, with the first election being held in August of ...
New Jersey passed the Anti-Eviction Act of 1974, becoming the first state to enact a just cause eviction law. [1]California passed the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to remedy the state's housing shortage, leading to renewed interest in utilizing just cause eviction laws to counteract the national housing crisis.
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the sheriff.All Cook County Sheriff's Deputies have police powers regardless of their particular job function or title. Like other Sheriffs' departments in Illinois, the Sheriff can provide all traditional law-enforcement functions, including county-wide patrol and investigations irrespective of municipal boundaries, even in the city of Chicago, but has ...