Brame v. The City of North Chicago

State: Illinois

Court: 2nd District Appellate

Docket No: 2-10-0760 Official Reports

Case Date: 09/06/2011

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Appellate Court

Brame v. City of North Chicago, 2011 IL App (2d) 100760

Appellate Court Caption

CURTIS W. BRAME, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE CITY OF NORTH CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee (Leon Rockingham, Jr., and Michael Newsome, Defendants).

District & No.

Second District Docket No. 2-10-0760 September 6, 2011 In action under the Whistleblower Act alleging that defendant chief of police retaliated against plaintiff officer for disclosing to defendant mayor information about chief's suspected criminal activity, summary judgment was improperly entered for defendants on the ground that the Act did not support a claim based on reporting unlawful activity to an employer that is a government or law-enforcement agency, because the Act is intended to afford relief to employees retaliated against for reporting criminal activity to government or law-enforcement agencies, even if the agency is the reporter's employer, and there are no exceptions in the Act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lake County, No. 08-CH-3638; the Hon. Mitchell L. Hoffman, Judge, presiding.

Filed Held
(Note: This syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.)

Decision Under Review

Judgment

Reversed and remanded.

Counsel on Appeal

Terence J. Moran, Karyn L. Bass Ehler, and Mark A. Cisek, all of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellant. Julie A. Bruch and Joshua S. Abern, both of O'Halloran, Kosoff, Geitner & Cook LLC, of Northbrook, for appellee.

Panel

JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Schostok and Hudson concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

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