van Blommesteyn v. Department of Children & Family Services

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Prior to April 1986, plaintiff Jan van Blommesteyn was employed by defendant Department of Children and Family Services (Department) as chief of its office of personnel and labor relations. On July 17, 1986, defendant Civil Service Commission (Commission) ruled that the Department had established cause for plaintiff’s discharge. Plaintiff subsequently filed in the circuit court an action for administrative review of the Commission’s decision. On June 19, 1987, the circuit court reversed the Commission’s decision and ordered plaintiff…