COALITION FOR POL. HONESTY v. STATE BD. OF ELEC.

No. 53774.

83 Ill.2d 236 (1980)

415 N.E.2d 368

COALITION FOR POLITICAL HONESTY et al., Petitioners, v. THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Announced September 2, 1980.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Barker, Jeffrey E. Schiller, Matthew A. Flamm, and Thomas W. Dressler, of Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, and Robert W. Bergstrom, of Bergstrom, Davis & Teeple, all of Chicago, for petitioners.

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield (Saul J. Morse and William P. Ryan, Special Assistants Attorney General, of counsel), for respondent State Board of Elections et al.

Andrew M. Raucci, of Chicago, for respondents David Mendel Patt and Jeff E. Bruner.


Writ awarded.

PER CURIAM:

On August 11, 1980, leave was granted petitioners, the Coalition for Political Honesty, the Committee for Legislative Reform, Patrick J. Quinn, George C. Townsend, Jane M. Brayton and Stanley C. Johnson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, to file this original action seeking a writ of mandamus directing the State Board of Elections (Board) to certify a proposed constitutional amendment for submission...

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