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Illinois Tech and DMG MORI plan to establish customized master’s and doctoral degree programs that would broaden access to advanced manufacturing and research and development employment opportunities.

“We have evolved as a society to understand that discrimination based upon different treatment, based upon sex means more than just biology,” said �鶹APP-Kent Professor Harold Krent.

“It’s about pooling our resources together and becoming a collaborative team to help raise up the quality of the workforce, and also the quality of impact that we have on the future of microchips and semiconductor manufacturing,” Ken Christensen, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Illinois Tech, told The Center Square. “We share a deep reserve of talent and innovation. This network is poised to make great contributions to the industry."

“They understand that staying a new and important law go from going into effect is significant, and that if that they're going to strike down the law or uphold the law either way that decision needs to be made relatively quickly,” said Professor Carolyn Shapiro, �鶹APP Kent College of Law.

“What I think the opinion misses is that the legislature plays a vital role in the criminal justice system and always has,” �鶹APP-Kent Professor Harold Krent said of a judge’s ruling on Illinois’ SAFE-T Act. “In fact it starts with the fact that, what is criminal? Judges don’t decide what’s criminal, the legislature does. What about sentencing? It’s the legislature that sets the parameters of sentencing. ... There is a joint undertaking from the legislature and the judicial.”

“I’m not suggesting that the legislature drew a perfect line here in terms of when we should decide an individual is dangerous and should not be released prior to the trial, but I do think that it’s up to the legislature to make a good-faith effort to accommodate the interests of safety, of fairness, and that’s what they attempted to do,” said �鶹APP-Kent Professor Harold Krent.

“We can all draw the lines differently,” �鶹APP-Kent Professor Harold Krent said, “but I think ... the Kankakee court didn’t notice that this was a reasonable effort under the Illinois constitution to try to accommodate the interests of the public in being safe, with having a fair and equitable criminal justice system that didn’t automatically make freedom pending trial contingent upon someone’s wealth.”

“The arguments raised all had merit, they weren’t frivolous,” �鶹APP-Kent Professor Richard Kling said. He noted that Judge THomas Cunnington did not issue an injunction along with his ruling, meaning that the decision will not stop jurisdictions that are not among the plaintiffs in the suit from implementing the provisions of the SAFE-T Act.

"The court short-changed the legislature's longstanding interest in defining what is a crime, defining what is a sentence for a particular crime, and defining when bail should be allowed or not allowed," said Professor Harold Krent, Kent College of Law and separation of powers expert.

Harold Krent, a law professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s �鶹APP-Kent College of Law, called Judge Thomas Cunnington’s ruling on the separation of powers violations “highly contestable,” arguing that the state legislature also has an interest in making sure the court system is fair. The legislature has already weighed in on similar matters, such as limiting judges’ discretion in sentencing.