Devaney v. Board of Trustees of the Calumet City Police Pension Fund

Plaintiff Gary Devaney filed a complaint for administrative review against the defendant Board of Trustees of the Calumet City Police Pension Fund (Board) and its individual members, who had determined that plaintiff was entitled to a nonduty, rather than a line-of-duty, disability pension based on findings that his disability did not result from or was not aggravated by a duty-related incident.

The circuit court reversed defendants’ decision and granted plaintiff his requested relief. Defendants appealed, arguing that their decision was not against the manifest weight of the evidence and the…