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TRAFFIC COURT MATTERS ON CBA-TV

FIRST ANNUAL PIE COMPETITION Join the Young Lawyers Section on September 10 as Chicago lawyers, law students and friends square off in the CBA’s first annual pie competi- tion benefiting the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center! All CBA members, law students, friends and family members (especially children) are welcome to attend and/or enter the competition. The competition will be judged by a panel of “celebrity”judges and the top three competitors will take home a prize. Not a baker? Come and watch the fun, grab a slice and enjoy great en- tertainment for families, including a face painter and balloon artist. A donation of $10 per person / $15 per family is suggested.To learnmore and to register visit www.chicagobar.org/ylspie. sia Winston and Octavio Duran, Project Officers; and Oliver Khan and Nick Stan- diford, Co-Editors of the YLS Section of the Record. Our directors this bar year are: Mark Abellera, Tracy Brammeier, Alexis Douglas, James Gay, Svetlana Gitman, Nick Holland, Yana Karnaukhov, Lindsay Margolis, Jeff Moskowitz, and Thomas Reynolds. Our Special Project Coordina- tors this bar year are: Tom Cramer, Alison Field, Danielle Genter, Mike Gentithes, Carolyn Howard, Peter McNamara, Alex Perraud, Goli Rahimi, John Risvold, and Andrew Stevens. We also have a great group of young lawyers serving as Committee Chairs and Legislative Liaisons for the YLS’ now 28 committees. Given the accomplished attorneys on our Executive Council and the passion and dedication of the YLS’ members, the 2016-2017 bar year is sure to be a success!

Watch CBATV’s latest production“CommonTraffic Matters”on the CBA’sYouTube Channel at www.youtube. com/chicagobar. Sadzi M. Oliva, Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services, and Mary Celeste Meehan, attorney at law, cover implications for those under 21, the everyday traffic ticket, and serious offenses resulting in suspension.

required to complete the mission of the traffic stop, including the completion of any “ordi- nary inquiries.” Any delay beyond that time will result in the traffic stop being unlawful. Conclusion Of course, what constitutes a reasonable amount of time to complete the “ordinary inquiries” is still open to interpretation. Practitioners should be mindful that, even though the police may be ostensibly performing an “ordinary inquiry” such as checking a driver’s registration, an argu- ment could still be made that the police took longer than necessary in order to complete that inquiry. That is because, as the Court recognized in Rodriguez , officers may only take the time “necessary to” effectuate the purpose of the traffic stop, which includes the “ordinary inquiries” sanctioned in Rodriguez and Cummings II . While Cummings II has freed police to undertake “ordinary inquiries” incident to traffic stops even when a driver has not been pulled over for a traffic violation, how long such inquiries may take remains an open question.

MEET THE COMMITTEES NIGHT

Come out andmeet theYoung Lawyers Section’s practice and specialty committees - everything from Bankruptcy to Estate Planning to Women in the Law - on Thursday, September 8, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., at the CBA. Meet and mingle withYLS leaders, enjoy complimentary appetiz- ers and cocktails, and sign up for committees. Nonmembers and law students welcome. Reg- ister online at www.chicagobar.org/ylsevents. together, one could run a warrant check on the driver in the squad car, while the other could remain at the car and ask the driver about anything—the driver’s immigration status, whether there were any drugs in the car, or whether the driver had been drinking alcohol. In theory, the officer remaining at the car could even perform a dog sniff of the car, provided that the sniff could be completed in the time it took the officer in the squad car to complete the “ordinary inquiries.” But Rodriguez still places an important limit on the length of any traffic stop. The stop must be tied to the length of time

Carson Griffis serves as a law clerk to Justice DavidW. Ellis at the Illinois Appellate Court.

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