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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
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Case

Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, June 26, 2023 · Certiorari denied

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)