Supreme Court of Illinois

In a class action seeking to enjoin the Illinois Department of Corrections from charging indigent inmates a co-payment for nonemergency medical and dental services, motion to dismiss the complaint is reversed and the matter remanded where plaintiff adequately pleaded irreparable injury and lack of an adequate remedy at law and the circuit court erred in dismissing plaintiff's complaint.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/16/2007
• Published 02/16/2007

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Leslye Jones-Beatty, Carl J. Elitz, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Linda T. Coberly, John F. Kness, of Winston & Strawn, Chicago, for appellee.