Court Opinion

ID: 9711082
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:24:09.515933+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:02.113682
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE MILLS, dissenting: I must dissent. I simply cannot agree with the majority’s interpretation of our jurisdiction to hear this appeal. In my view, it belongs across the hall in the supreme court. This case — although couched in terms of mandamus and beclouded in all the mystique of extraordinary writs — is still nothing more than a proceeding “to review orders of the Industrial Commission.” The majority is driving the wrong way on a one way street. The taproot of this case, below as well as here, is sunk squarely in the Commission’s refusal to approve a workers’ compensation settlement. And it is clearly a proceeding to review the Commission’s action. For this court to meddle in the review of Industrial Commission orders flies directly in the face of both the 1970 Illinois Constitution and a rule of our supreme court. This appeal should be transferred to the Supreme Court of Illinois.