Theodore v. Elmhurst College

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court;

Hughette Theodore, a tenured faculty member, filed a complaint against Elmhurst College (hereinafter the College) charging that her dismissal was in breach of her contract with the College and that the real motive for her discharge was that she was black. The College filed a timely motion to strike and dismiss directed at certain allegations in the complaint, and an answer in which the defendant asserted certain affirmative defenses, including the pendency of another action between the same parties for the same cause.…