Supreme Court of Illinois

Where, at the time the appellate court issued its opinion, the medical facility in question had been built and the capital which defendant had earmarked for the project had been spent, it was a moot question as to whether defendant's expenditure of funds to construct the facility was unnecessary under the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2002
• Published 11/05/2002

Judges

• Chief Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, Timothy K. McPike, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellants Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board et al., McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago (Brian S. Hucker, P.C., Geoffrey A. Vance, of counsel), for appellants Southern Illinois Hospital Services et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald W. Shea, Ira Rogal, of Shea, Rogal & Associates, Robert N. Hutchinson, LaGrange, for appellee.