The Court’s workers compensation docket has been light in the last six years. The Court has decided only three workers compensation cases recently – two in 2015 and one in 2016.
All three of the Court’s latest workers compensation cases were won by the plaintiffs below.
Defendants who won at the Appellate Court were one
Today, we continue our review of the Illinois Supreme Court’s workers compensation caseload. Between 2006 and 2013, the Court decided twelve workers compensation cases – three in 2006, three in 2007, one per year in 2008, 2009 and 2010, none in 2011 or 2012 and three in 2013.
Seven of the Court’s most recent workers
The workers comp docket was up slightly between 1998 and 2005, as the Court decided twenty-three cases: four in 1998, three in 1999, four in 2000, one in 2001, three in 2002, two in 2003 and 2004 and four in 2005.
The distribution of cases between plaintiffs’ wins from the Appellate Court and defendants’ wins
Today, we’re beginning a new area of law in our analysis of the Justices’ handling of workers compensation cases, beginning with the years 1990 to 1997.
From 1990 to 1997, the Supreme Court decided twenty-one workers comp cases – three in 1990, one in 1991, two each in 1992 and 1993, six in 1994, two
Today, we conclude our trip through the Court’s civil constitutional law cases.
Between 2014 and 2019, the Court has decided twenty-seven civil constitutional law cases: four in 2014, five in 2015, six in 2016, three in 2017, five in 2018 and two to date in 2019.
The Court tended to take slightly more plaintiffs wins
Today, we’re continuing our series of posts on the Court’s experience since 1990 with civil constitutional law cases.
Constitutional law cases continued to drop sharply as a share of the civil docket between 2006 and 2013, as the Court decided only twenty-nine cases. The Court decided five cases in 2006, two in 2007, eight in
Earlier today, we began our review of the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases, starting with the years 1990 through 1997. This time, we’re looking at the next eight years: 1998 to 2005.
Constitutional law cases were down during this period. After deciding sixty-five cases between 1990 and 1997, the Court decided only forty-nine
Last time, we completed our review of the Court and Justices’ voting records on employment law cases. This week, we’re taking a look at the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases (we also track constitutional law cases on the criminal law docket, but those cases are not included in the data below).
Throughout the
Last time, we reviewed the data on the Court’s employment law cases from 2000 to 2010 and began looking at the data for the past nine years. Today, we review the remainder of the data, as well as looking at the overall numbers.
Since employment law cases have been so rare since 2010, we combine
Last time, we began our review of the Court’s recent history with employment law cases, covering the years 1990 through 1999. Today, our review continues with the years 2000 through 2009.
The Court’s employment law docket tailed off during our second ten years, from nineteen cases between 1990 and 1999 to fourteen in the period