Court Opinion

ID: 9518546
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:55:34.418238+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:29:31.403331
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE FREEMAN, dissenting: I strongly disagree with Justice Rarick’s contention that the analysis employed in Fisher v. Lexington Health Care, Inc., 188 Ill. 2d 455 (1999), was an “analytical error” (209 Ill. 2d at 47) (Rarick, J., dissenting). Nevertheless, I do agree with Justice Rarick that relevant distinctions exist between the Personnel Code and the Nursing Home Care Act, which was at issue in Fisher. Accordingly, I believe that Fisher does not dictate the result in this case, and I agree with Justice Rarick that the appropriate result in this case would be to imply a private right of action for the violation of the Personnel Code’s whistle-blower statute (20 ILCS 415/19c.1 (West 2002)).