December 22, 2017 UPDATE: Amended Recorder Employment Plan can be viewed here.
August 19, 2016 UPDATE: The Court entered an Agreed Order that amended the Recorder’s Do Not Rehire Without Further Consideration policy. This Order can be viewed here.
July 29, 2016 UPDATE: Plaintiffs filed a “Motion for Issuance of a Rule to Show Cause Why Certain Senior Staff in the Cook County Recorder of Deeds’ Office Should Not be Held in Civil Contempt and for Related Relief” which can be viewed here.
April 7, 2016 UPDATE: The Court entered an Agreed Order reflecting an agreement reached by Plaintiffs and the Recorder of Deeds concerning the Recorder’s pending Motion to Amend the Exempt List. This Agreed Order can be viewed here. Pursuant to this Agreed Order, the Recorder’s Exempt List was amended to include two new Positions: Chief of Human Resources and Special Assistant to the Recorder – Community Affairs.
March 4, 2016: The RCA filed her Response to the Recorder’s Reply Brief in Support of the Recorder’s Motion to Amend the Exempt List which can be viewed here. (Exhibits A and B). The purpose of this Response was to correct certain misleading and/or inaccurate statements made in the Recorder’s Reply Brief.
February 23, 2016: Plaintiffs’ Counsel filed a Motion for Leave to File Brief in Excess of 15-Pages which can be viewed here. (Plaintiffs attached Plaintiffs’ Response to RCA’s Recommendation as Exhibit A).
February 23, 2016: The Recorder filed her Reply Brief in Support of Motion to Amend Exhibit List which can be viewed here. (Exhibits A and B).
January 28, 2016: The RCA filed her Statement concerning the Cook County Recorder of Deeds’ Motion to Amend the Exempt List which can be viewed here. (Exhibits A and B).
January 5, 2016: Plaintiffs filed a Response to the Cook County Recorder of Deeds’ Motion to Amend the Exempt List which can be viewed here.
December 18, 2015: The RCA filed a Response to the Cook County Recorder of Deeds’ Motion to Amend the Exempt List which can be viewed here.
December 16, 2015: The Cook County Recorder of Deeds filed a Motion to Amend the Exempt List which can be viewed here.
August 14, 2014: Agreed Order Approving the Cook County Recorder of Deeds Employment Plan
November 29, 2012: Agreed Order to Amend the Cook County Recorder of Deeds’ Exempt List
September 14, 2010: Supplemental Relief Order for the Cook County Recorder of Deeds
2007 Plaintiffs’ Application to Hold the Cook County Recorder of Deeds in Contempt
1992 Consent Decree for the Cook County Recorder of Deeds