Supreme Court of Illinois

In a personal injury claim brought two years after the incident in question, dismissal is affirmed where the legislature intended for the one-year limitation period for plaintiffs seeking to recover from local entitles found in the Tort Immunity Act to apply broadly to any possible claim against a local public entity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/18/2004
• Published 11/18/2004

Judges

• Chief Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frances J. Skinner-Lewis and Gerald T. Rohrer, Jr., of Schuyler, Roche & Zwirner, Chicago, for appellant., Mara S. Georges, Corporation Counsel, Chicago (Lawrence Rosenthal, Benna Ruth Solomon and Myriam Zreczny, of counsel), for amicus curiae City of Chicago., Jay S. Judge and Erika G. Baldonado, of Judge, James & Kujawa, L.L.C., Park Ridge, for amici curiae Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel et al., Roger Huebner, Springfield, for amicus curiae Illinois Municipal League., Thomas L. O'Carroll, Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew S. Knorr, Charles E. Webster, Marvin A. Brustin and Ted A. Rzeszewski, Chicago, for appellee.