PEOPLE EX REL. DIFANIS v. BARR

No. 15464.

78 Ill. App.3d 842 (1979)

397 N.E.2d 895

THE PEOPLE ex rel. THOMAS J. DIFANIS, State's Attorney for Champaign County, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOAN BARR et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed November 28, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hatch, Nicol, Blockman & McPheters, of Champaign, and James Kuehl of Finch & Kuehl, of Urbana, for appellants.

Thomas J. Difanis, State's Attorney, of Urbana (Joseph D. Pavia, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE CRAVEN delivered the opinion of the court:

The State's Attorney filed this action under the Open Meetings Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 102, par. 41 et seq.) to obtain a declaratory judgment that members of the Urbana city council may not meet in closed session to discuss city council business. According to the facts stipulated by the parties, an Urbana city council meeting was scheduled for Monday evening, October 23...

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