Illinois Supreme Court, 2012

The Illinois Supreme Court held that an unemployed parent's regular withdrawals from a savings account are not income for purposes of calculating child support. Because the lower courts improperly included those withdrawals in net income, the court reversed both judgments and remanded for a new calculation that may…

The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the denial of leave to file Walter Edwards's third and fourth successive postconviction petitions, both alleging actual innocence based on newly discovered evidence.