Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University v. Department of Human Rights

Defendants, the Illinois Department of Human Rights (the Department); the Department’s director, Joyce E. Tucker; and two of its investigators, Freddie Gatewood and Stanley R. Moen, appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Jackson County which granted a writ of prohibition to prevent them from pursuing charges that plaintiffs, the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (SIU) and certain of the university’s employees, David White, Jim Bramlet, Richard Moy, and Terry Travis, were guilty of unlawful discrimination in violation of the Hlinois Human Rights Act (Ill. Rev. Stat.…