Shaw v. Department of Employment Security

This consolidated appeal involves two cases challenging decisions of the Board of Review of the Illinois Department of Employment Security (Board), which upheld referees’ decisions denying unemployment insurance benefits to plaintiffs Helen Shaw (Shaw) and Janice Camp (Camp). In filing suit, each plaintiff named as a defendant the “Department of Employment Security, State of Illinois” (Department) but failed to name the Department’s Director or the Board of Review. The circuit court dismissed the cases for plaintiffs’ failure to name a necessary party, and the plaintiffs appealed. We affirm.

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