Mellon v. Coffelt, No. 2-99-0243
2nd District, 17 May 2000
| LAURA MELLON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SALLY COFFELT, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lake County, and JUDYBARR TOPINKA, Treasurer of the State of Illinois, Defendants-Appellees. | Appeal from the Circuit Court of LakeCounty. No. 98--CH--915 Honorable Wallace B. Dunn, Judge,Presiding. |
JUSTICE GEIGER delivered the opinion of the court:
This appeal arises out of the trial court's dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint challenging the constitutionality of section 2--1009A of the Code of Civil Procedure, which imposes a surcharge on the filing fee in civil litigation to fund court-annexedmandatory arbitration. 735 ILCS 5/2--1009A (West 1998). On appeal, the plaintiff argues that section 2--1009A violates thefollowing clauses of the 1970 Illinois Constitution: the uniformity clause (Ill. Const. 1970, art. IX,