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Mathias W. Delort
Mathias W. Delort was a judge of the Illinois 1st District Appellate Court. He assumed office in 2012. He left office on September 6, 2023.
Delort ran for re-election for judge of the Illinois 1st District Appellate Court. He won in the retention election on November 8, 2022.
Education
Delort received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University in 1981 and his J.D. from the John Marshall Law School in 1985.[1]
Career
- 2012-2023: Judge, First District Appellate Court
- 2007-2012: Associate judge, Illinois Cook Judicial Circuit Court
- 1998-2007: Partner, Robbins, Schwartz, Nicholas, Lifton & Taylor, Ltd.
- 1988-1989: Associate/partner, Odelson & Sterk
- 1985-1988: Solo practitioner[2][3][4]
Elections
2022
See also: Illinois intermediate appellate court elections, 2022
Illinois 1st District Appellate Court, Mathias W. Delort's seat
Mathias W. Delort was retained to the Illinois 1st District Appellate Court on November 8, 2022 with 75.9% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
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| ✔ | Yes |
75.9
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852,545 | ||
No |
24.1
|
270,456 | |||
Total Votes |
1,123,001 | ||||
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2012
Delort was elected to the First District Appellate Court on Nov. 6, 2012. He won the Democratic primary (a six-way race) on March 20, 2012, receiving 25% of the vote. Because there was no Republican candidate, he was unopposed in the general election. He replaced the late Robert Cahill.[5][6][7][8]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mathias W. Delort did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Noteworthy cases
Abortion clinic dodges state fines (2015)
In 2009, Antonesha Ross, an 18-year-old, sought a surgical abortion at Chicago's Women's Aid Clinic. At the time, Ross had pneumonia, a condition which should have made her ineligible for an abortion that day. The first time Ross visited the clinic, she was turned away because of an upper respiratory infection; doctors told her to see her primary care doctor for a course of antibiotics. She returned less than a week later, still unwell. The Women's Aid clinic proceeded to provide the service Ross requested; they did so without first determining that Ross actually obtained the medical care the clinic said she needed before they would perform the abortion. This time, instead of a respiratory infection, Ross had pneumonia. When she began having trouble breathing, workers did not perform CPR on Ross and instead handed her a paper bag in which to breathe. Ross died several hours later from cardiopulmonary arrest.
An investigation was opened by the state following Ross' death. Women's Aid clinic was ultimately fined $36,000 in 2011 for:
1. failing to inform patients of medical conditions which make abortion too risky to perform ($9,000);
2. failure to employ an on-staff registered nurse to act as supervisor of care in the operating room ($18,000); and
3. for sanitary violations ($9,000).
In 2011, the Women's Aid Center filed for bankruptcy and closed. The clinic's ending bank balance was just $77. The fines were never paid because of the bankruptcy. Its owner, Larisa Rozansky, later opened a new clinic called the Women's Aid Center. The Illinois Department of Public Health challenged nonpayment of the fine, attempting to seize over $3,000 held in the Center's bank account. The Department of Public Health attempted to seize those funds to collect on the clinic's debt, but Rozansky sought judicial intervention. An evidentiary hearing was held by Judge Alexander White to determine if those funds were part of the clinic's assets. Judge White ultimately determined that the clinic and the Center were entirely separate entities, as Rozansky argued, and thus the state could only collect the $77 in the clinic's bank account.
The Department of Public Health appealed Judge White's ruling to the First District Appellate Court, arguing that the money in the Center's account could be traced back to the clinic closed by Rozansky. The court's decision was written by Judge Mathias W. Delort. He wrote that, at the evidentiary hearing held by Judge White, no evidence was presented linking the two businesses; the clinic offered surgical abortions while the Center provides only medication-induced abortions. Further, there was no evidence Rozansky transferred any funds or equipment from the clinic to the Center, and there was ample evidence that, at the time of closing, the clinic was insolvent. Therefore, the state could not seize the funds in the Center's bank account.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Mathias William Delort campaign website, accessed June
- ↑ Illinois Courts, "Illinois Circuit Court Judges, Cook County Associate Judges"
- ↑ Chicago Law Bulletin, "Sullivan's Judicial Profiles - Mathias W. Delort"
- ↑ Illinois Lawyer Now, "378 Illinois associate judges reappointed to 4-year terms," June 2011
- ↑ Illinois Board of Elections, "November 6, 2012 Official Vote" Scroll to p.120
- ↑ Illinois State Bar Association, "Results from Tuesday's Cook County judicial elections; Theis holds Supreme Court seat"
- ↑ Illinois Judges.net, "Election Results for the March 20th Illinois Judicial Primary"
- ↑ Illinois Judges.net, "Vacancy of Robert Cahill"
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