Board of Education v. Eckmann

Plaintiff, Board of Education of Hawthorne School District No. 17, Marengo, Illinois (Board), filed its complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendants, Illinois Department of Human Rights (Department), several of the Department’s employees, and Jeanne Eckmann, a tenured school teacher employed by the plaintiff. On plaintiff’s motion the trial court granted a preliminary injunction enjoining defendants from conducting a scheduled fact-finding conference in the matter of Jeanne Eckmann “in such fashion as to prohibit plaintiff from making a report of proceedings at said…