State, County & Municipal Employees Local 339 v. City of Highland Park

The late Honorable Thomas N. Robinson, sitting as a visiting judge in the third judicial circuit, granted a decree enjoining defendants from enforcing against 163 of defendant city’s employees for whose benefit plaintiffs instituted this class suit a city ordinance requiring said employees to establish bona fide residences within defendant city. The chancellor found the ordinance to be arbitrary and unreasonable as it was sought to be applied to said 163 employees of defendant.

The ordinance was adopted by the city of Highland Park in 1956 and was entitled, “An ordinance to require that all…