Legal Opinion
Acevedo v. Cook County Sheriff's Merit Board
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided May 7, 2019No. 1-18-1128UnpublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pucinski
*442 ¶ 1 In this putative class action, plaintiff Joseph Acevedo, on his own behalf and on behalf of those similarly situated, alleges that employment termination decisions issued by the Cook County Sheriff's Merit Board (Board) were void because the Board was illegally constituted at the time it issued those decisions. The trial court dismissed Acevedo's first amended complaint pursuant to section 2-615 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) ( 735 ILCS 5/2-615 (West 2016) ), on the basis that it lacked jurisdiction over Acevedo's putative class action. The trial court concluded that its…
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- Jose Vargas v. Cook County Sheriff's Merit BoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2020
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