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JOHNSON v. OGILVIE

No. 42769.

47 Ill.2d 506 (1970)

266 N.E.2d 338

DOROTHY JOHNSON et al., Appellants, v. RICHARD B. OGILVIE, Governor, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 4, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BARBARA J. HILLMAN, of Chicago, (KLEIMAN, CORNFIELD AND FELDMAN, of counsel,) for appellants.

WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, (FRANCIS T. CROWE and A. ZOLA GROVES, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for appellees.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, Dorothy Johnson, Bessie Gilbert, Dorothy Pitchford and Mayme Keen, brought this action in the circuit court of Sangamon County alleging that their discharge from their positions as janitresses at the Mount Vernon State Tuberculosis Sanitarium violated their constitutional rights under the first and fourteenth amendments...

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