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SAYLES v. THOMPSON

No. 59032.

99 Ill.2d 122 (1983)

457 N.E.2d 440

JAMES SAYLES et al., Appellees, v. JAMES THOMPSON, Governor, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 1, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Patricia Rosen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

Charles Hoffman, Jan Susler, Shelley A. Bannister, and Margaret Byrne, all of Chicago, for appellees.

Judgment reversed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

The representative plaintiffs in this class action are three prisoners heretofore committed to the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections and presently confined in Illinois prisons. They brought this action in the circuit court of Cook County on behalf of all Illinois prisoners subject to the Interstate Corrections Compact (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 1003-4-4) seeking...

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