Cushing v. Pitman

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, eight Illinois State Police Troopers, filed a petition in the circuit court of Sangamon County seeking a declaration that Illinois State Police special order S-EN-76-12, for an alleged violation of which they had been suspended, is invalid and of no force and effect. The trial court dismissed the petition on motion of the defendants, Dwight E. Pitman, Superintendent of the Illinois State Police, and Harvey N. Johnson, Director of the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to…