Title: Keating v. City of Chicago

State: illinois

Issuer: Illinois Supreme Court

Document:

Illinois Official Reports 
 
Supreme Court 
 
 
Keating v. City of Chicago, 2014 IL 116054 
 
 
 
Caption in Supreme 
Court: 
 
ELIZABETH KEATING et al., Appellants, v. THE CITY OF 
CHICAGO, Appellee. 
 
 
 
Docket No. 
 
116054 
 
 
 
Filed 
 
 
November 20, 2014 
 
 
 
Held 
(Note: 
This 
syllabus 
constitutes no part of the 
opinion of the court but 
has been prepared by the 
Reporter of Decisions 
for the convenience of 
the reader.) 
 
 
An appeal was dismissed, with the effect of affirming the decision 
under review but with no precedential impact, where the supreme 
court could not muster the four votes which are constitutionally 
required to reach a decision. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Decision Under  
Review 
 
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; heard in that 
court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, the Hon. 
Michael B. Hyman, Judge, presiding. 
 
 
 
 
 
Judgment 
 
Appeal dismissed. 
 
 
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Counsel on 
Appeal 
Derek Y. Brandt, of Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd 
LLC, of Alton, Patrick J. Keating, of Roberts McGivney Zagotta LLC, 
of Chicago, Michael T. Reagan, of Ottawa, and Andrea Bierstein, of 
Hanly Conroy Bierstein Sheridan Fisher & Hayes LLP, of New York, 
New York, for appellants. 
 
Stephen R. Patton, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Benna Ruth 
Solomon, Myriam Zreczny Kasper and Kerrie Maloney Laytin, of 
counsel), for appellee. 
 
 
 
PER CURIAM 
OPINION 
 
¶ 1 
 
In this case, two Justices of this Court have recused themselves and the remaining 
members of the Court are divided so that it is not possible to secure the constitutionally 
required concurrence of four judges for a decision (see Ill. Const. 1970, art. VI, § 3). 
Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed. The effect of this dismissal is the same as an 
affirmance by an equally divided court of the decision under review but is of no precedential 
value. See Perlman v. First National Bank of Chicago, 60 Ill. 2d 529, 530 (1975). 
 
¶ 2 
 
KARMEIER and BURKE, JJ., took no part.