The PEOPLE EX REL. BANKS v. Ruddell

Plaintiff filed a complaint praying that a writ of mandamus issue to compel defendants to take all steps necessary to expunge his six-day suspension from the records of the House of Correction of the City of Chicago and from the records of the Civil Service Commission and to order defendants to pay his lost salary for the six-day suspension. The trial court ordered that a writ of mandamus issue commanding defendants to comply with the relief prayed for in the complaint.

On appeal the issue is whether an employee has a right to seek relief in the courts to invalidate an alleged illegal six-day…