Supreme Court of Illinois

In a suit for disclosure of public records, the records are ordered to be released where the defendant-Department had a burden of proof which it failed to meet and it should release the information.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2006
• Published 02/02/2006

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Jerald S. Post, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellants., Richard J. O'Brien, Eric S. Mattson and Jamie L. Secord, of Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, L.L.P., Chicago, for amici curiae Associated Press et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald M. Craven, Springfield, for appellee.