Question #1-A county court in Illinois is deciding a case involving an issue that has never been addressed before in that state's courts. The Iowa Supreme Court, however, recently decided a case involving a very similar fact pattern. Is the Illinois court obligated to follow the Iowa Supreme Court's decision on the issue? If the United States Supreme Court had decided a similar case, would that decision be binding on the Illinois court?

Rule of Law: -The following legal rules from the text which are relevant to the question consist of the following:

Relevant Facts: - The relevant factual points of the question which pertinent to the above law are

Conclusion: - Based on an application of the above facts from the question to the relevant law from the text, we can conclude