Legal Bulletin - March 8, 2010
Posted on Monday March 08, 2010
PAC Letters in the IML Website, Gun Control, IML Municipal Attorneys Seminar - Final Reminder, Recent Opinions More

Ryan v. Board of Trustees, No. 108184 (Feb. 19, 2010)
Posted on Friday February 19, 2010
Former Governor Ryan -- the plaintiff -- was not entitled to pension benefits from the retirement system under the Illinois Pension Code because it applied to a single employer -- the State of Illinois -- and it was that single employer the plaintiff defrauded that resulted in his felony convictions. More

2010 Municipal Attorneys Seminar
Posted on Friday January 29, 2010
The annual IML Municipal Attorneys Seminar will be held on Friday, March 19, 2010 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bloomington, Illinois. Some of the topics will include, Practical Issues with FOIA Implementation, Municipal Utility Regulation of Municipal Systems and The Video Gaming Act: A Legal Overview. More

Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York, No. 08-969 (Jan. 25, 2010)
Posted on Monday January 25, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court held that, although an online seller of cigarettes failed to submit customer information for its out-of-state sales as required by federal law, the seller was not liable for a civil violation of the RICO Act for mail and wire fraud. The petitioner was not the proximate cause of the city's injury of losing out on the tax revenue. The city's harm was directly caused by the customers' failure to pay the tax that they were legally obligated to pay. More

People v. Kane, Third District No. 3-08-1008 (Jan. 11, 2010)
Posted on Monday January 11, 2010
The State may not prosecute violations of the Smoke Free Illinois Act through criminal proceedings because the General Assembly intended violations to be enforced through administrative channels. More

New ADA Publication Requirements
Posted on Thursday October 01, 2009
Last Session, the General Assembly passed Senate Bill 133, which was signed into law by Governor Quinn. This new law requires municipalities to post certain information about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). More

Cemetery Oversight Task Force Issues Recommendations
Posted on Friday September 18, 2009
Last July, authorities made the gruesome discovery that bodies interred at the Burr Oaks Cemetery had been systematically removed from their graves in a scheme to resell the burial plots to other patrons. In the wake of this discovery, Governor Quinn created a Cemetery Oversight Task Force to hold hearings and submit recommendations to avert similar burial schemes from occurring in the future. More

More Articles about the Problems with Public Pensions
Posted on Monday September 14, 2009
The Chicago Sun-Times has published several more articles detailing some of the problems with the current pension system. More

Information on the Video Gaming Act
Posted on Thursday July 23, 2009
The General Assembly has passed the Video Gaming Act and it became law on July 13, 2009. This new Act was passed by three separate pieces of legislation. More