Appeal Board of the Department of Environmental Control v. United States Steel Corp.

This is an appeal by the United States Steel Corporation and six of its employees (hereinafter respondents) from an order of the circuit court of Cook County entered on March 19, 1971. The order upheld the validity of six subpoenas duces tecum which had been issued by the Appeal Board of the Department of Environmental Control of the City of Chicago (hereinafter Appeal Board) during an administrative proceeding. The order was entered upon a petition filed by the Appeal Board, after the motion of the respondents to dismiss the petition had been overruled. The subpoenas commanded the six…