{"id":174,"date":"2008-05-02T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T22:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/02\/tro-enjoins-president-of-cook-county-board-from-removing-public-defender\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T21:21:50","slug":"tro-enjoins-president-of-cook-county-board-from-removing-public-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/tro-enjoins-president-of-cook-county-board-from-removing-public-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"TRO Enjoins President of Cook County Board From Removing Public Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Riley entered an order enjoining the President of the Cook County Board from proceeding with a hearing to remove the Public Defender. \u00a0The TRO was granted after Ed Burnette was allowed to intervene in the pending litigation in the Chancery Division where the litigation seeks declaratory relief as to the office&#8217;s independence from political influences in staffing by virtue of the public defender statute. \u00a0As a consequence, please do not attend the previously scheduled hearing before the County Board which was going to be held on Wednesday, May 7, 2008. \u00a0A hearing on whether the TRO will become a permanent injunction is set for 2 pm on May 9th, 2008 before Judge Riley.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS:<\/p>\n<p>************TRO was reversed on appeal.\u00a0 Please see story\u00a0in the In\u00a0the News Section **********<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Riley entered an order enjoining the President of the Cook County Board from proceeding with a hearing to remove the Public Defender. \u00a0The TRO was granted after Ed Burnette was allowed to intervene in the pending litigation in the Chancery Division where the litigation seeks declaratory relief as to the office&#8217;s independence from political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}