Supreme Court of Illinois

Section 2-28(3) of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, which states that permanency orders may be immediately appealed as a matter of right under Supreme Court Rule 304(b)(1), violates the separation of powers clause of the Illinois Constitution. Permanency orders can be appealed under Rule 306(a)(5).

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:
  
• Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Eileen T. Pahl, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee Goldfarb, Kenneth T. McCurry, Nancy Grauer Kisicki, Nancy Faulls, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People., Patrick T. Murphy, Charles P. Golbert, Kristin N. Wuerffel, Office of the Public Guardian of Cook County, Chicago, for the minor.