About Elizabeth Monkus

Elizabeth Monkus (she/her) is the Senior Attorney & Project Director for Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts. Elizabeth came to Chicago Appleseed in 2010 to manage the Judicial Performance Commission Demonstration project. She currently focuses on domestic relations and judicial elections in her program work.

Current Legal Events: The Supreme Court Starts a New Term

This is the first week in October, so the Supreme Court is back in session. Two cases of interest to us here at Chicago  Appleseed are an immigration case and a Fair Debt Collections Practice Act case. As always, SCOTUSblog offers an excellent primer on both cases. The immigration case, Chaidez v....
October 4, 2012

Links of Interest: September 24-28, 2012

Judicial Performance and Elections The National Center on State Courts e-courts project reports that Florida's paperless electronic filing system is "is saving money, making the judicial process more efficient and gaining international interest." Criminal Justice The Illinois Criminal Justice...
September 28, 2012

Current Legal Events: The Fifth Circuit and the Immigration Debate

Last week, the 5th Circuit agreed to rehear Villas at Parkside Partners v. Farmers Branch, a civil rights lawsuit challenging a Texas ordinance that required all adults living in rental housing within the city of Farmer’s Branch to obtain a $5 occupancy license conditioned upon the occupant's citize...
September 26, 2012

ILP v Madigan

Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, the Campaign Legal Center and Chicago Appleseed have filed an amicus (.pdf download) in ILP v Madigan, in  support of Illinois' campaign contribution limits. ILP (the Illinois Liberty PAC) and an individual who contributes both to individual candidates and to...
September 25, 2012
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