Baksinski v. Corey

Plaintiff, the City of Chicago (City), brought a defendant class action in the circuit court of Cook County against several putative classes of charitable organizations. The City sought to collect sewer charges from these organizations under the Sewer Revenue Fund Ordinance (Chicago Municipal Code ch. 185.1 (1984)). Prior to the trial court’s certification of the defendant classes, two of the named class representatives, defendants Northwestern University (Northwestern) and the Young Men’s Christian Association of Metropolitan Chicago (YMCA), sought exclusion from their putative classes. The…