Juergensmeyer v. Bensinger

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Sangamon County denying plaintiffs request for a writ of mandamus and granting a declaratory judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff had sought a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants to restore him to his position as a Youth Service Supervisor I in the IUinois Youth Commission from which he had been removed when the position was abolished by the defendants. Plaintiff aUeges that the abolition of his position was done in bad faith as a means of removing him rather than by the proper removal procedure which requires good cause, written…