Department of Revenue v. Civil Service Commission

This appeal challenges the Illinois Civil Service Commission’s reinstatement of 27 state employees to four-year term positions in government jobs to which they were appointed in the final months of former Governor George Ryan’s administration. The plaintiffs now appealing are the 13 state agencies to which the defendant employees received four-year term appointments beginning in fall 2002. We agree with plaintiffs that the Commission lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the cases of 20 of the 27 defendant employees. Accordingly, we vacate the Commission’s order reinstating those 20…