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William Carlson, et al. v. Thomas Cronin, et al.

Paid petition · Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, No. 1-20-0724 · judgment June 30, 2022


Certiorari denied · June 26, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether Carlson’s constitutional right to due process and constitutional right to receive full faith and credit of a final judgment was violated when certain Illinois courts ignored, refused to acknowledge, consider, address or comment in any manner on the evidence presented, which included a prior final judgment ruling on a dispositive issue, and the law presented that established that Carlson’s has a viable claim for legal malpractice claim against Cronin for his failure to timely file a legal malpractice claim against Drinker before the statute of limitations and statute of repose expired. Whether the underlying proceedings were a “sham” because the conclusion was predetermined and not based upon the undisputed evidence and law presented by both parties at the hearings in this case. Whether a trial court in Illinois violated the Full Faith and Credit Act and 28 U.S.C. 1738 by refusing to comply with a final judgment rendered previously by the same judge in the same matter but involving another party.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Joseph T. Gentleman
Joseph T. Gentleman

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 26 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 06 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/22/2023.
  3. Feb 28 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 26, 2023)