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Circuit Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit, Illinois. Churchill/Lincoln/Beatles aficionado. Urbana native born and raised. Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
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If you have a deal with a person who later dies, and you assign the claim on that deal to somebody else, the “somebody else” had better be the one to file a claim against the dead person’s estate; Illinois courts will not play “word games” to avoid dismissing such a claim when the wrong party sues.

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I approve this admonition.

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I find myself in “gastonette” situations more often than I like, and I am pleased to have so colorful a word to describe that phenomenon.

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Thank you, Gene, for helping us laugh even in the darkest times.

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Not the first to notice this reality is upon us, just joining the chorus of others who have.

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My favorite movie quote.

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“We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.” -Winston S. Churchill, 1939

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The fundamental requisite of due process of law is the opportunity to be heard. This right to be heard has little reality or worth unless one is informed that the matter is pending and can choose for himself whether to appear or default, acquiesce or contest. -Justice Robert H. Jackson (1950)

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Motion to determine restaurant

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Remember the judge that ordered two lawyers to get lunch and talk it out? Well, they did it.

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“We must strive to frame some system of human relations…which will no longer leave the whole life of mankind dependent on the virtues, the caprice, or the wickedness of a single man.” Winston Spencer Churchill, August 1939.

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“Where a band of ferocious men rise from depths to dictatorships there is no guarantee for life, or for law, or for liberty.” -Winston Churchill, July 7, 1934

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Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! … If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. -Abraham Lincoln, 1838

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