LOPEZ v. FITZGERALD

No. 50131.

76 Ill.2d 107 (1979)

390 N.E.2d 835

KAREN LOPEZ et al., Appellants, v. JOSEPH FITZGERALD, JR., et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Supplemental opinion filed on denial of rehearing May 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Masur, Fred L. Lieb, Seymour J. Mansfield, Gordon Waldron, and Anthony J. Fusco, Jr., of Chicago, for appellants.

William R. Quinlan, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Daniel Pascale, Robert L. Thompson, and Kathleen Ransford, of counsel), for appellees.

Robert J. Vollen, Douglass W. Cassel, Jr., James A. Geocaris, and Robert L. Graham, of Chicago, for amici curiae League of Women Voters of Illinois et al.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, individuals and community groups, filed a class action complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief seeking access to building inspection reports made by the Department of Buildings of the city of Chicago (Department). The individual plaintiffs alleged they had sought and were denied access to building inspection reports of buildings in which they resided or in which...

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