Estep v. Department of Public Aid

92 Ill.2d 510 (1982)

442 N.E.2d 148

DONALD ESTEP et al., Appellees,

v.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AID et al., Appellants.

No. 56751.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 30, 1982.

Rehearing denied November 24, 1982.

Jeremiah Marsh, Special Assistant Attorney General, of Springfield (John L. Rogers III, John N. Gavin, and David O. Toolan, of Hopkins & Sutter, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

Thomas Johnson, Robert E. Lehrer, Dveera Segal, Marianne Smigelskis, Mark C. Weber, and Robert Burns, all of Chicago, for appellees.

James P. Chapman, of Chicago, for amicus curiae the People…