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NAPOLITANO v. WARD

No. 70 C 1597.

317 F.Supp. 83 (1970)

Richard A. NAPOLITANO, Plaintiff, v. Hon. Daniel P. WARD, Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, the Honorables Joseph Burke and Samuel O. Smith, Justices of the Appellate Court of Illinois, and the Honorables Robert Jerome Dunne and Seely P. Forbes, Judges of the Circuit Court of Illinois, individually and as Ex Officio Members of the Illinois Courts Commission. Hon. William J. Scott, Attorney General of Illinois, individually and as designated counsel for the Illinois Courts Commission, the Hon. Justin Taft, Clerk of the Illinois Supreme Court, individually and as Clerk of the Illinois Courts Commission, and the Hon. Roy O. Gulley, Administrator of the Illinois Courts, individually and as permanent secretary of the Illinois Courts Commission. Hon. Richard A. Hollis, individually and as State's Attorney of Sangamon County, Illinois, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

August 5, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Cassidy, Jr., Peoria, Ill., James P. Chapman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Frank J. McGarr, First Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Illinois, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PERRY, District Judge:

Plaintiff Richard A. Napolitano was removed from the office of Cook County Circuit Judge by the Illinois Courts Commission on July 14, 1970. The instant action, founded on the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, names as defendants the members of said Courts Commission and other State officials and charges that plaintiff's removal violated constitutionally protected rights. Presently before the court...

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