Category Archives: Civil Stalking No Contact Orders

Category Archives: Civil Stalking No Contact Orders

Illinois Appellate Court Cites Article by Lori G. Levin in Its Opinion About Stalking Orders of Protection

I am honored to have been cited by the Illinois Appellate Court’s 4th District in Ivancicts v. Griffith, 2017 IL App (4th) 170028 https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Opinions/AppellateCourt/2017/4thDistrict/4170028.pdf. The Appellate Court cited my article, Stalking No Contact Order Act, that appeared in the November 2011 edition of The Catalyst, the Illinois State Bar Association’s Women and the Law Committee’s […]

Prevalence of stalking and Illinois’ legal response to stalking allegations

Recently, the United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics released a revised report on the prevalence of stalking in the United States, which can be found at https://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/svus_rev.pdf. Highlights of the report include that during a twelve-month period approximately 1.5 percent of persons aged 18 years or older were victims of stalking, nearly […]

Civil Stalking No Contact Orders

In Illinois, the courts hold domestic violence civil order of protection proceedings over persons who have had a dating or familial relationship. The courts now also hold civil stalking no contact proceedings for persons who have not had such a relationship but where conduct is alleged to have reached the level of stalking. The legislative […]

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