Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 15 Jun 2017
The FOIA litigation saga continues as the Illinois Supreme Court in Better Government Association v. IHSA ruled in favor of the athletic association…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 17 May 2017
Recently the Second District Appellate Court issued an opinion holding that the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) applied to certain records…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 1 Dec 2016
In a recent Illinois Appellate Court decision, the Court held that a public body was in violation of the Open Meetings Act (OMA) where the public body…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 22 Jul 2016
Recently, the Illinois Appellate Court (First District) issued its decision in Better Government Association v. Illinois High School Association and…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 22 Dec 2015
Last year, an Illinois Circuit Court overturned a Public Access Counselor opinion that found that the Board of Education of Springfield School…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 29 Sep 2015
On September 24, 2015, the Illinois Supreme Court reaffirmed the adage that “a picture is worth a thousand words” in holding that Community High…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 30 Jan 2015
Last September in this Alert, we discussed an opinion in which the Second District Appellate Court ruled that Community High School District 155 was…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 10 Sep 2014
In a strongly worded 42 page decision, the Second District Appellate Court ruled in Gurba v. Community HS Dist. 155, that school districts are…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 30 Apr 2013
In Parker v. Lyons, 2013 WL 1624336 (C.D. Ill. 2013), a candidate filed a nominating petition with the requisite number of signatures and was later…
Franczek Radelet PC | USA | 2 Apr 2013
In Rubin v. City of Lancaster, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's determination that the city council's invocation policy and…