Today we conclude our preview of the civil oral arguments in the Illinois Supreme Court’s November term with a look at the numbers for Stone Street Partners, LLC v. City of Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings. Our detailed summary of the facts and lower court opinions in Stone Street is here.
Stone Street began
Yesterday, we began our preview of the Illinois Supreme Court’s November term with Jones v. Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund, which involves a decision from the Circuit Court of Cook County striking down SB 1922, a bill aimed at saving the Chicago public employee pension funds. Today, we conclude our preview of Jones with
Today we begin a short hiatus from our data analytics look at oral arguments before the Illinois Supreme Court for a brief preview of Court’s November term. We begin with Jones v. Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, a sequel of sorts to In re Pension Reform Litigation from earlier this year.
Yesterday, we continued our Justice-by-Justice review of the question patterns of the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court, asking what we can infer about Justice Robert R. Thomas’ likely vote, and the chances that he is writing an opinion, based upon his level of questioning to each side. Today, we turn to a related question:
In recent weeks, we’ve been taking a close look, Justice by Justice, at the question patterns of the members of the Illinois Supreme Court. We’ve been analyzing whether the Justices’ question patterns allows us to tentatively infer the Justices’ likely votes, and which Justices might be writing opinions.
Table 87 contains the data for cases
Today we continue our Justice-by-Justice analysis of the question patterns during oral argument on the Illinois Supreme Court, looking further at the data on Justice Charles E. Freeman. Yesterday, we discovered that in contrast to Justices Burke and Kilbride, Justice Freeman doesn’t tend to question counsel more heavily in cases where he winds up writing
Last week, we continued our detailed look at the questioning patterns of the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court with Justice Thomas L. Kilbride. Today, we turn to the question patterns of Justice Charles E. Freeman.
Justice Freeman’s question patterns differ from Justices Burke and Kilbride in several ways. In cases where Justice Freeman votes
Yesterday, we continued our Justice-by-Justice review of question patterns in oral arguments at the Illinois Supreme Court, beginning our two-day look at Justice Thomas L. Kilbride. Our goal is to explore what we can infer about how each Justice might vote, and whether he or she is writing an opinion, from the Justice’s questioning. Today,
Last week, we began our detailed look at the individual Justices’ question patterns during oral argument. You’ll recall we began by dividing 233 oral arguments in civil cases into the four possible voting scenarios – the Justice voting with the majority to reverse or affirm, and the Justice voting in the minority in either case.
Yesterday, we began our Justice-by-Justice review of question patterns at the Illinois Supreme Court with Justice Anne M. Burke. Our goal is to explore what we can infer about likely voting and opinion writing from each Justice’s questioning of the two sides. Today, we look at whether Justice Burke’s vote and opinion writing impacts the