Opinion ID: 3134369
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Ill 2d 304, 328 (1989); Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit

Text: District No. 302, 18 Ill. 2d 11, 28 (1959). Ironically, defendants even cite Board of Commissioners as authority for this contention. We stress, however, that in none of these cases did this court ever expressly limit to the Illinois Supreme Court alone the power to determine the prospective application of a prior decision to a case which was pending at the time the prior decision was issued. Indeed, whether the appellate court has the authority to so act was never an issue for our review in any of the cases cited by defendants for this proposition. Moreover, our review of the decisions in Chevron, Board of Commissioners, and Negron reveals that, in each case, the reviewing court applied the previous decision prospectively to the later case in the interests of equity and fairness and not because it possessed any power with respect to the retroactive question. Therefore, past decisional law indicates that the appellate court in this case did not, as defendants suggest, usurp a power exclusively vested in this court. Additional support for the appellate court's power to act in this case can be found in Supreme Court Rule 366. That rule provides in pertinent part: In all appeals the reviewing court may, in its discretion, and on such terms as it deems just