Supreme Court of Illinois

As of the time plaintiff filed his petition for writ of certiorari, no final judgment had been rendered by the Court of Claims, and the proceedings were still in the preliminary stages, thus plaintiff's certiorari petition was prematurely filed and the circuit court should not have considered the petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/08/2003
• Published 04/08/2003

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark S. Johnson and Gary E. Stark, of Johnson & Stark, L.L.C., Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and John P. Schmidt, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellee Illinois Court of Claims., Regina B. Haasis, of Nally, Haasis & Bauer, P.C., Champaign, for intervenor-appellee Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.