PEOPLE EX REL. HARROD v. ILL. COURTS COM.

No. 49118.

69 Ill.2d 445 (1977)

372 N.E.2d 53

THE PEOPLE ex rel. SAMUEL G. HARROD III, Judge, Petitioner, v. THE ILLINOIS COURTS COMMISSION et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Harte, Ltd., of Chicago, and Jerome Mirza & Associates, of Bloomington, and Samuel G. Harrod, Jr., of Eureka, for petitioner.

Milton I. Shadur and Geraldine Soat Brown, of Chicago (Sharon Baldwin, of Devoe, Shadur & Krupp, of counsel), for respondents.

Francis D. Morrissey and Sidney Z. Karasik, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Judges Association.

Leonard M. Ring, of Chicago, and Howard H. Braverman, of Springfield, for amicus curiae Illinois State Bar Association.

John F. McCarthy, of Chicago (McCarthy & Levin, of counsel), for amicus curiae Chicago Bar Association.

Arnold B. Kanter, Charles H. Kennedy, Robert G. Byron, and John R. Schmidt, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Chicago Council of Lawyers.


Writ awarded.

MR. JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a petition for an original writ of mandamus filed with leave of this court by petitioner, Samuel G. Harrod III, a judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, against respondents, members of the Illinois Courts Commission (Commission), praying that the respondents be directed to expunge an order they entered which suspended petitioner from his judicial duties for one month without...

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