Roth v. Daley

Defendants, Richard J. Daley, Mayor of the City of Chicago, the City of Chicago, and James Y. Carter, Public Vehicle License Commissioner of the City of Chicago, appeal from the judgments of the Circuit Court of Cook County, entered in plaintiff’s action for Declaratory Judgment and Mandamus. In the declaratory judgment order the circuit court held certain portions of an ordinance to be “arbitrary, unreasonable and capricious as they apply to the petitioner in this lawsuit and void and of no effect as to him.” It issued a Writ of Mandamus ordering defendants Carter and Daley to issue…