DuPage County Courthouse will be closed an effort to ensure the continued health and safety Monday, July 5 in observance of Independence of every person who interacts with the 18th Judicial Day. Circuit.

New IICLE Arrivals: ZOOM COURT DATES Civil Discovery Practice, 2021 edition Many court cases require litigants to appear before Chancery and Special Remedies, 2021 edition a judge via Zoom instead of appearing in person. Premises Liability, 2021 edition This means you may attend your court date via Zoom from your home or office using your Continuing Legal Education smartphone or personal computer - you do not Ending Harassment, Bullying, and Incivility in need to come to the courthouse. Here is the link: the Workplace https://18thjudicial.org/18thJudicial/Remote- Ending Harassment, Bullying, and Incivility in the Court-Hearings. Legal Workplace puts attorneys in real-life scenarios to help them manage workplace incivility Notices are mailed to litigants explaining if they and identify organizational changes that can lead to should appear via Zoom. These notices are mailed a more equitable work environment. to the address the Circuit Court Clerk's Office has 1.0 hour of Professional Responsibility CLE on file. To update your mailing address, go to Sign up here epay.18thjudicial.org. To check your court date and time, visit your e-filing account at i2file.net or the Vaccines Available! public access Circuit Court Clerk Public Information Application. Effective May 3, 2021, walk- ins will be accepted at the Zoom is currently available in the law library on the DuPage County Community second floor of the 505 building for those who do Vaccination Clinic. Anyone not have access to a smartphone or computer at over the age of 12 is eligible. home. Hours in July are limited to Thursday-Saturday, check online for more specific times. Register beforehand to save time when you arrive. Find Legal Trivia! more information at the DuPage County Health The current Constitution of Illinois went into effect Department website. on July 1, 1971. How many versions of the Illinois *Anyone under the age of 18 must have a parent or Constitution had been ratified prior to the 1970 legal guardian accompany them to get vaccinated. one?

Masks in the Courthouse This Month in Illinois History The CDC has updated its guidance for mask- The Eastland Disaster wearing to say that vaccinated individuals no longer need to mask in most indoor and outdoor spaces. On July 24, 1915 thousands of However, the DuPage County Courthouse will still Company employees and their families gathered be requiring masks in all areas of the courthouse in along the River to board the SS Eastland

1 and cross Lake Michigan. They were headed for a Immediately following the accident finger pointing company picnic at the beach in Michigan City, began to fix the blame on someone. The inspectors Indiana. or the chief engineer, the boat owner or officers of the steamship company. Inquiries were launched, The Eastland was built criminal changes were brought, civil lawsuits for in 1902, initially more than 800 wrongful-death claims were filed. In designed to carry 650 the end all criminal charges were dropped. Families passengers. Over the of victims received little to no compensation. years it underwent major construction and Ted Wachholz, president of the Eastland Disaster retrofitting to increase Historical Society, understands the memory of the capacity to 2,500 and Eastland in American history as so much smaller Eastland SS in 1911 increase speed. It than that of the or Lusitania because “There became known as the “Speed Queen of the Great wasn’t anyone rich or famous onboard, it was all Lakes.” It also developed a reputation of being hardworking, salt-of-the-earth immigrant families.” unstable, a “hoodoo boat,” nearly capsizing on at least 3 previous occasions. Illinois in Top 10 Nationally on the

On the morning of July 24, as passengers were Justice Index boarding the Eastland it began listing starboard, The National Center for Access to Justice began rightened, and then began listing to port. Within 2 gathering data in 2014 for its Justice Index. The minutes after it listed 45 degrees to port, it rolled Index ranks all 50 states, Washington D.C., and over. It happened so quickly that there was no time Puerto Rico on access to justice topics. The to launch the lifesaving equipment – life boats and Composite Index of scores provide a nationwide life rafts, more numerous after a federal bill comparison of states and Illinois placed ninth this required a certain number after the Titanic sinking. year! One of the access to justice topics that is This added weight may have affected an already assessed is self-representation. In that category troubled boats stability. Illinois ranks third among all states for meeting certain benchmarks, including: using plain language The ship was lying on court forms, having and informing litigants in 20 feet of the about fee waivers for court costs, and having an ’s Access to Justice Commission with a strategic plan, murky water. Many among other things. Visit the Justice Index to see passengers were all the factors considered for SRLs, and the able to climb over remaining categories where there is room for the starboard railing improvement. and across the The sunken ship, July 24, 1915. hull to safety. The Consequences of Naming Suspects That wasn’t the case for all, one reporter wrote, Can Last Forever “The results of the Eastland’s somersault could be by Leslie Strauss phrased in two words – living or dead.”

The journalism of today is undoubtedly not the 10 weeks before, the Lusitania had sunk after being journalism of the past, and it has changed torpedoed, with a death toll of 785 passengers. In dramatically with the birth of the internet. Many of 1912, 829 passengers died aboard the Titanic. The the standards and practices have stood the test of Eastland rolled 20 feet from the dock, yet 844 time, of course, but the journalism of today is passengers died. Seventy percent of them were searchable and permanent and accessible to under the age of 25. virtually anyone. Addressing the inherent problems

of such permanence, the Associated Press has

2 recently announced that it will no longer name inaccurate. So, is there anything to be done once a suspects in minor crimes. suspect’s name has been published? There are cases of people wanting their names cleared from The advent of search engines making most the record, but whether that should be done is far information easily and instantly accessible has from unanimous. Some journalists view that as a required that we consider the potential harm that form of revisionist history. The Boston Globe, on can come to a person from having their name the other hand, has announced an appeals process published in connection with a possible crime. to remove stories from its archives: “We are not in There are glaring examples of how a life can be the business of rewriting the past, but we don’t destroyed by being wrongly named in cases we all want to stand in the way of a regular person’s hear about in the news. The damage to one’s ability to craft their future.” At the discretion of reputation can be significant and long lasting. the organization, the story involving a suspect’s Richard Jewell, for example, was initially named as name may be “hidden” from Google searches or a a suspect in the bombing at Centennial Olympic story may be updated to include any exonerating Park in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympic information that happened after publication or a Games. Though he was cleared as a suspect and suspect’s name can be erased from the text. The never charged, his name will be forever associated problem, of course, is that these measures make with the bombing. Raymond Donovan, the former finding information more difficult, but certainly not U.S. Secretary of Labor indicted on corruption impossible. There is a name for this concept, i.e. charges but later cleared, famously posed the the right to be forgotten (RTBF), and it is the right question to the media “Which office do I go to to to have private information about a person get my reputation back?” removed from internet searches under some circumstances. The right to be forgotten is distinct It has long been standard practice not to name from the right to privacy. The right to privacy victims or juveniles, but suspects have often been concerns information that is not publicly known, named in news stories regardless of how minor the while the right to be forgotten involves removing offense. The AP’s Vice President for Standards, access to information that was once available to the John Daniszewski, noted that a person’s identity is public. generally not newsworthy beyond local communities, and that the name of the person One of the tenets of ethical journalism is to arrested “will live on forever online, even if the minimize harm, meaning balancing the public’s charges are dropped or the person acquitted.” The need for information against any potential damage ramifications to the individual named can be far to the individual. The AP has taken a positive step reaching, affecting things like future employment or toward limiting the potential harm to suspects from ability to run for office, or even simply dating. The their names living on forever via the internet. AP directive says that the AP will no longer name suspects or publish photographs of them in brief Extension of Federal Moratorium on stories about minor crimes when there is little Evictions chance the AP will cover the case beyond the initial The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrest. This policy only applies to minor crime (CDC) order issued June 24th, 2021 has extended stories, however. Suspects will continue to be the moratorium on most residential evictions for identified by name for public safety reasons, and nonpayment of rent through July 31st, 2021 from when there will be ongoing news coverage. This the previous date of June 30th, 2021. Read the includes significant crimes such as murder or updated order on the CDC website. FAQs for assault, abuse of the public trust, or fugitives on the Renters, regarding the federal moratorium on run. evictions, can be found on the National Low Income Housing Coalition website. Google has become a kind of permanent record, even though that record can be incomplete or

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Staff Book Recommendations her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American.” -Amazon.com Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner – Recommended by Juanita The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab – Recommended by Leslie “In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, “France, 1714: in a moment of Michelle Zauner proves herself desperation, a young woman far more than a dazzling singer, makes a Faustian bargain to live songwriter, and guitarist. With forever―and is cursed to be humor and heart, she tells of forgotten by everyone she meets. growing up one of the few Asian Thus begins the extraordinary life American kids at her school in of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling Eugene, Oregon; of struggling adventure that will play out across with her mother's particular, high expectations of centuries and continents, across her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months history and art, as a young woman learns how far spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, she will go to leave her mark on the world. But where she and her mother would bond, late at night, everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, over heaping plates of food.” -Amazon.com Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.” Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime –Macmillan Publishers Baking by Yossi Arefi – Recommended by Juanita American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law “In Snacking Cakes, the From Smallpox to Covid-19 by John Fabian Witt – indulgent, treat-yourself Recommended by Leslie concept of cake becomes an anytime, easy-to-make treat. “From yellow fever to smallpox A collection of no-fuss to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, recipes perfect for anyone epidemics have prompted who craves near-instant cake Americans to make choices and satisfaction.” -Amazon.com answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Fabian Witt traces the legal Victoria Christopher Murray – Recommended by history of epidemics, showing Juanita how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that “Belle da Costa Greene is hired throughout American history legal approaches to by J. P. Morgan to curate a public health have been liberal for some collection for his newly built communities and authoritarian for others, Witt Pierpont Morgan Library. But shows us how history’s answers to the major Belle has a secret, one she must questions brought up by previous epidemics help protect at all costs. She was born shape our answers today.” -Amazon.com not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets

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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Buolamwini made the startling discovery that some Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt – Recommended algorithms could not detect dark-skinned faces or by Erica classify women with accuracy. Coded Bias documents the dramatic journey that follows, from discovery to “A panoramic investigation of exposure to activism.” -pbs.org the subterranean landscape, from Available on Netflix sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and Bo Burnham: Inside – Recommended by Erica ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, “A new comedy special shot and science, architecture, and performed by Bo Burnham, mythology of the worlds beneath alone, over the course of the our feet.” -Penguin Random past year.” -Netflix.com House Available on Netflix

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“A searing, deeply moving Lupin – Recommended by Juanita memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s “Inspired by the adventures of journey from diagnosis to Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief remission to re-entry into Assane Diop sets out to avenge “normal” life—from the author his father for an injustice of the Life, Interrupted column inflicted by a wealthy family. in The New York Times” Available on Netflix -Amazon.com

TV & Movie Recommendations Podcast Recommendations Coded Bias – Recommended by Leslie The Improvement Association – Recommended “In an increasingly data-driven, by Erica automated world, the question of how to protect individuals’ “From the makers of Serial civil liberties in the face of and The New York Times. artificial intelligence looms The Improvement larger by the day. Coded Bias Association. In this five- follows M.I.T. Media Lab part audio series, join computer scientist Joy reporter Zoe Chace as she Buolamwini, along with data travels to Bladen County, scientists, mathematicians, and N.C., to investigate the watchdog groups from all over power of election fraud the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination allegations – even when they’re not substantiated.” within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify daily life. While conducting research on facial recognition technologies at the M.I.T. Media Lab,

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Law Library Lingo Sudoku!

Burden of Proof 2021 Law Library Statistics Certiorari (*SRLs = Self-Represented Litigants) Deposition Domicile January total visitors = 915 Extradition January SRLs = 544 Guardian ad litem Mistrial February total visitors = 1,583 Plea February SRLs = 443 Probate Stipulation March total visitors = 2,521 Trustee March SRLs = 589 Verdict Warrant April total visitors = 2,235 April SRLs = 454 Legal Trivia! Answer: May total visitors = 1,769 The first Illinois Constitution was adopted in May SRL’s = 460 1818, subsequent constitutions were ratified in 1848, 1870, and the present version in 1970. June total visitors = 2,201 June SRL’s = 563

Quotable Quote Self Help Center visitors

January – May = 3,180 “It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all” —Jonathan Safran Foer

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