Marotta v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

Objector, Charles Marotta, appeals from an order of the circuit court dismissing his challenges to respondent’s 1983 tax levies.

In December 1984, Marotta and several other taxpayers filed an action in the circuit court challenging the 1983 appropriation ordinances and tax levies of several governmental entities and seeking refunds of taxes alleged to be illegal and void. This is an appeal by Marotta from a circuit court ruling upholding the taxes levied by one of those entities, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (District).

The objections to the District’s tax…