A recent appellate court ruling involving the firing of a Country Club Hills police officer for lying sheds light on the roles of arbitrators who decide disciplinary cases just as state lawmakers consider major police reform legislation.
Tom DeVore, attorney for the owners of Joe s Station House Pizza and Pub, makes an argument during a Normal Liquor Commission hearing Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, at Normal City Hall.
Lawyers for the Town of Normal and a local business accused of violating COVID-19 restrictions faced off Tuesday at a Liquor Commission hearing, but a decision on the matter isn’t expected for several weeks.
Still, Tom DeVore, who represents the owners of Joe’s Station House Pizza and Pub, said after the hearing, if Normal rules against his clients brothers Joe and Tony Wargo he ll appeal the case to the Illinois State Liquor Commission. The Wargos attended the hearing, but declined to comment to WGLT.
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On December 17, 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a community college violated the Illinois Public Community College Act when it replaced laid off tenured faculty members with adjunct faculty. The case addressed Section 3B-5 of the Act, which addresses “bumping rights” and prohibits community colleges from employing “other employees with less seniority” for services a laid off tenured faculty member is competent to render.
Barrell v. Board of Trustees of John A. Logan Community College (insert link) involved the layoff of 27 full-time, tenured faculty members at an Illinois community college. The college subsequently hired adjunct instructors to teach the courses previously taught by the tenured faculty members, who filed a lawsuit claiming that this action violated Section 3B-5 of the Act. A trial court initially dismissed the complaint, but the Illinois Appellate Court reversed, finding that Section
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(CARTERVILLE) Teachers who sued after part-time instructors were hired to lead their classes at a Southern Illinois community college have won an appeal from the State Supreme Court. John A. Logan College in Carterville laid off several tenured faculty members during a budget crisis move four years ago, back in 2016. Seven of the faculty members sued the school, seeking back pay and benefits, even though they were recalled to work a year later in 2017. The Illin