Court Opinion

ID: 9526547
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:19:46.453375+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:29.624690
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE WOLFSON, specially concurring: Standing requires some injury in fact to a legally cognizable interest. Glazewski v. Coronet Insurance Co., 108 Ill. 2d 243, 254, 483 N.E.2d 1263 (1985). While the claimed injury may be actual or threatened, it must be "distinct and palpable.” Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority, 122 Ill. 2d 462, 493, 524 N.E.2d 561 (1988). As I understand it, the plaintiffs are complaining that their property taxes are made too low by the tax cap act. The reduced tax revenues, they say, will reduce funding for necessary and desirable services furnished by taxing bodies in Cook County and the Collar Counties. They complain about reduced state aid to school and library districts, but allege no facts to support the broad allegations. I have difficulty seeing how the plaintiffs have alleged an injury in fact to a legally cognizable interest. This is far from the diminution in value of the plaintiffs’ homes in Greer. It sounds more like a generalized grievance common to all members of the public. I concur in the court’s opinion because I believe the issue of standing ought to be resolved by summary judgment motion, after appropriate discovery. I do not read the court’s opinion as having foreclosed the issue.