Illinois MVP: support court selection before document upload

[nonprofittechy]

Partner feedback / product decision

The Illinois partner is still considering the pros and cons of document-first filing, but is comfortable with court selection as the first filing step for the MVP.

Current reorganized main flow is filing-path → upload documents → extraction/review of court and case information. Earlier work (#35 and #75) intentionally moved document upload earlier, so this should be treated as an explicit Illinois MVP product decision rather than an incidental UI tweak.

Proposed Illinois MVP behavior

• After choosing Start a new case (and where appropriate File into an existing case), ask the filer to identify the court/venue before requiring document upload.
• Integrate with the court-finder/hierarchical selection work in filter for location / court list? #115 and Make courts hierarchical based on county/equivalent when in dev? #120.
• Preserve an option to use document extraction later to confirm or suggest corrections to the selected court/case values.
• Ensure the filer can override any recommendation.
• Keep the workflow configurable enough that other jurisdictions can retain a document-first flow if desired.

Related issues

• Add an "upload form and extract data" step at the beginning of the workflow #35 — upload/extract data early in workflow (completed)
• Let users upload all documents on the first screen, not just the lead document #75 — upload all documents on first upload screen (completed)
• filter for location / court list? #115 — location/court finder
• Make courts hierarchical based on county/equivalent when in dev? #120 — hierarchical court selection
• Don't preselect Cook County as a last possible option #131 — do not preselect Cook County

[nonprofittechy]

Documenting this here for completeness; I am not sure if this is truly desired behavior (assuming limitations on our implementation time would make it better). we've gone back and forth on this a lot, with me still thinking people want to get to their action (e.g., uploading) as quickly as possible.