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BURNS v. REGIONAL TRAN. AUTH.

No. 82-0772.

112 Ill. App.3d 464 (1982)

445 N.E.2d 348

JOHN T. BURNS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (5th Division).

Rehearing denied February 8, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah Marsh, Michael Schneiderman, Michael M. Conway, and John L. Rogers, III, all of Hopkins & Sutter, of Chicago (Carl J. Frank, General Counsel of the Regional Transportation Authority, of counsel), for appellant Regional Transportation Authority.

John O. Demaret, Ronald F. Bartkowicz, and Jean M. Golden, all of Chicago, for appellant Chicago Transit Authority.

Ray G. Rezner, W. Scott Porterfield, and Jonathan D. Moses, all of Fishman, Merrick & Perlman, P.C., of Chicago (Julius V. Padegimas, Keefe & Ehemann Law Center, Ltd., McCarron & Carroll, Michael Closen, and Miles Hartman, Ltd., of counsel), for appellees.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE WILSON delivered the opinion of the court:

This action consolidates six complaints filed by persons who purchased July 1981 monthly passes from the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to contest ordinances of the CTA and Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) whereby transit fare increases affected July monthly pass holders. Plaintiffs contend that their monthly passes were contracts which entitled them, in all events and regardless...

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