Bass v. Scott

Plaintiff appeals from an order of the circuit court dismissing his action for a declaratory judgment against the defendant William J. Scott, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, contending that the dismissal on the basis of res judicata was improper.

In his previous action, Bass v. Stackler, et al., 76 L 11014, plaintiff sought a writ of mandamus to compel the Attorney General to enforce certain provisions of the Illinois Optometric Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 111, par. 3801 et seq.). More specifically, he sought the enforcement of the Act’s provisions regulating the…