Supreme Court of Illinois
People ex rel. Madigan v. Illinois Commerce Comm'n, 105131
In proceedings arising after plaintiff-Attorney General electronically transmitted an application for rehearing with the Illinois Commerce Commission after the close of business on the application's due date, a district court's ruling dismissing plaintiff's appeal from the application's denial is reversed where the Attorney General's application for rehearing was timely filed, and the Fourth District did not lack jurisdiction on timeliness grounds.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/20/2008
- Published 12/03/2008
Judges
Court
- Supreme Court of Illinois
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, Jan E. Hughes, Diane M. Potts, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Demetrios G. Metropoulos, Nissa J. Imbrock, John E. Muench and Jeffrey A. Berger, of Mayer Brown LLP, and Louise A. Sunderland, Karl B. Anderson, John T. Lenahan, Chicago, for appellee Illinois Bell Telephone Company.