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- House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee markup of H.R. 8870
Government Record · 2026
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
House Transportation Committee markup record: the Perry amendment was voted down 20 to 44.
- I Don’t Know Why I’m Here: Civil Asset Forfeiture in Cook County
Document · 2023
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Court watchers observed more than 230 Cook County civil forfeiture cases from March through August 2022. The report's summary says 67 percent of property owners had…
- Illinois Attorney General Opinion No. 25-001: Felony Forfeiture of Pension Benefits
Government Record · 2025
Kwame Raoul, Illinois Attorney General
The official opinion concludes that Madigan’s qualifying convictions require pension forfeiture.
- Illinois Controlled Substances Act, 720 ILCS 570/402
Government Record · 2026
Illinois General Assembly
Residual possession outside specified amounts can be a Class 4 felony, but “one pill” is not automatically Class 4: substance, amount, and subsection matter. Section 402(d),…
- Illinois Executive Order 2020-10 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8)
Government Record · 2020
Governor JB Pritzker
The order excluded salons and barber shops from essential healthcare operations and required nonessential businesses to cease activities except minimum basic operations. A separate stay-home provision…
- Illinois Executive Order 2020-18
Government Record · 2020
Governor of Illinois
The statewide closure framework was opened, but no official City of Chicago record establishing Lightfoot’s haircut was found. The order alone cannot verify the personal-conduct allegation.
- Illinois Seizure and Awarded Assets Annual Report Summary 2024
Government Record · 2024
Illinois State Police
The 2024 Illinois State Police report shows the Cook County drug-forfeiture split still in use: 65 percent to the seizing agency, 25 percent to the Cook…
- Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2005
Peter J. Pecora et al.
The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study of young adults who were in foster care in Oregon and Washington from 1988 to 1998. Among alumni 25 and…
- In re Wild, 994 F.3d 1244 (11th Cir. 2021) (en banc)
Court Filing · 2021
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
The en banc court denied the sought pre-charge judicial remedy. This government-favorable holding limits the practical remedy notwithstanding Marra’s earlier finding.
- In the Matter of Exelon Corp. and Commonwealth Edison Co., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 33-11248
Government Record · 2023
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
ComEd completed the DPA and the criminal charge was dismissed on July 17, 2023.
- Independent Review of County’s Safety-Net System for Children and Vulnerable Adults Finds Strengths
Government Record · 2022
Riverside County
Riverside County's release on the independent Larson review of how its safety net handled the Turpin siblings. The county said all $400,000 in the siblings' trusts…
- Independent Review of the Turpin Siblings Case (Larson LLP Report)
Document · 2022
Larson LLP
The Larson LLP review found that the social services system often failed the Turpin siblings after their rescue, including unstable housing, food insecurity and placement of…
- Institute for Strategic Dialogue: Anatomy of a Disinformation Empire, Investigating NaturalNews (2020)
Document · 2020
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, June 2020: an NGO report mapping 496 domains it links to Natural News and its founders. One of the groups named in…
- Interim Final Rule on Collection of the Special Assessment
Government Record · 2025
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The FDIC's December 2025 notice puts the estimated loss from protecting uninsured SVB and Signature depositors at about $16.7 billion as of September 30, 2025, up…
- Investigation of Habersham County Deaths (Georgia Bureau of Investigation)
Government Record · 2010
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation's March 27, 2010 release on the deaths of former state senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband Bruce. The medical examiner found…
- ISAACS v. Jateff et al., 6:26-cv-01263, public docket
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; via PacerMonitor
Court docket showing Isaacs's lawsuit settled at mediation in September 2026.
- Jack Dorsey: Senate Commerce Testimony (October 2020)
Government Record · 2020
Jack Dorsey, Twitter
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, October 2020: told the Senate Commerce Committee that Twitter's decisions are made without regard to political viewpoint, and described its moderation and…
- Jack Dorsey: Senate Judiciary Testimony (November 2020)
Government Record · 2020
Jack Dorsey, Twitter
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, November 2020: told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Twitter's hacked-materials policy was informed by conversations with the U.S. government, and explained blocking…
- Jessop v. City of Fresno, 936 F.3d 937 (9th Cir. 2019), amended opinion
Court Filing · 2019
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The allegations concerned property seized under a search warrant, not a traffic stop, and were not adjudicated theft findings. Immunity rested on the absence of clearly…
- Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Government Record · 2023
U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
The statement invoked systemic-risk exceptions to protect all SVB and Signature depositors. It did not protect shareholders or certain unsecured debtholders.
- Jones v. Heslin: Texas Appeals Court Reduces Damages (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Texas Third Court of Appeals
Texas Third Court of Appeals, August 2026: kept Alex Jones's liability to Sandy Hook parents but cut exemplary damages to $750,000 per appellant, finding the trial…
- Jones v. Lafferty: Petition to the Supreme Court (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems LLC
Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems, September 2025: asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Connecticut Sandy Hook case. The appendix reprints the appeals ruling…
- Jones v. Lafferty: Supreme Court Docket, Petition Denied (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court, October 14, 2025: docket shows it denied Alex Jones's petition to hear the Connecticut case. Justice Sotomayor also denied application 25A411. A denial…
- Judge Orders Amos Miller to Pay $250,000 Fine Within 30 Days or Risk Jail
News Report · 2021
Food Safety News
The article quotes the sanctions order’s daily penalties: $25,000 per day for prohibited slaughter and $1,500 per day for specified unlicensed retail operations or missing required…