Most courts have agreed with the Illinois court that flight alone is insufficient.
He then went to court to obtain custody, but two lower Illinois courts ruled against him.
She is a justice of the Illinois appellate court.
The Illinois court passed judgment against the insurance company.
The addition of the dog impermissibly turned a traffic stop into a drug investigation, the Illinois court said.
"When she wants communications and visitation with the boys, she'll show up here in an Illinois court and ask for it."
The dissenters would have affirmed the Illinois court and excluded the evidence.
The Illinois court agreed, and Lincoln won the day.
The majority reversed a decision by an Illinois appellate court that upheld a trial judge's instruction in the case.
The Illinois courts have permitted the suit to go forward.