Case Name: THE PEOPLE ex rel. ROLAND BURRIS, Attorney General, et al. (Monroe Flinn, Petitioner), v. GEORGE H. RYAN, Secretary of State, et al., Respondents
Court: Illinois Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1994-02-03
Citations: 158 Ill. 2d 469
Docket Number: No. 72662
Parties: THE PEOPLE ex rel. ROLAND BURRIS, Attorney General, et al. (Monroe Flinn, Petitioner), v. GEORGE H. RYAN, Secretary of State, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Reports, Second Series
Volume: 158
Pages: 469–475

Head Matter:
(No. 72662.
THE PEOPLE ex rel. ROLAND BURRIS, Attorney General, et al. (Monroe Flinn, Petitioner), v. GEORGE H. RYAN, Secretary of State, et al., Respondents.
Order entered February 3, 1994.
— Motion for reconsideration denied March 15, 1994.

Opinion:
CHIEF JUSTICE BILANDIC,
dissenting from denial of the petition for post-judgment relief:
I join in the dissent of Justice Harrison, and add further: I have full faith and confidence in the integrity of my former colleague, although we disagreed on the ultimate outcome of this case in 1992.
Nevertheless, I also believe that Representative Flinn has adequately alleged facts in his petition to warrant a hearing. We should abide by the words inscribed in our courtroom, "Audi Alteram Partem." As stated in my dissent to Justice Cunningham's majority opinion:
"I believe that the tie-breaking procedure set forth in article IV, section 3(b), of the Illinois Constitution of 1970 violates the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. Any redistricting plan produced as a result of the tie-breaking procedure is therefore unconstitutional and invalid." People ex rel. Burris v. Ryan (1992), 147 Ill. 2d 270, 314.
The well-pleaded petition provides this court with the opportunity to consider and correct the serious constitutional infirmity of our redistricting procedure.