Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a juvenile delinquent ordered to be placed in a residential facility in Utah, an order requiring school district where the minor's mother was then residing to pay for the educational portion of the cost is reversed where: 1) the placement was accomplished under the Juvenile Court Act because it was based on the minor's delinquency; 2) the Act contains no provision authorizing a court to order a school district to make such payment; and 3) since placement was not ordered for educational purposes, the order for reimbursement could be justified under a School Code provision which provides that school districts which cannot meet children's special education needs are required to have this done by others.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/23/2004
• Published 09/23/2004

Judges

• Justice KILBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Helen Haynes, Sara Dillery Hynes, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Relias, Julie E. Heuberger, of Franczek Sullivan, P.C., Chicago, for appellee.