VAN BLOMMESTEYN v. DCFS

No. 4-87-0483.

164 Ill. App.3d 1094 (1987)

518 N.E.2d 649

JAN van BLOMMESTEYN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed December 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Roma Jones Stewart, Solicitor General, and Rita M. Novak, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

John L. Swartz and Carol J. Hansen Fines, both of Giffin, Winning, Lindner, Cohen & Bodewes, P.C., of Springfield, for appellee.


Affirmed in part, and reversed in part and remanded.

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN delivered the opinion of the court:

Prior to April 1986, plaintiff Jan van Blommesteyn was employed by defendant Department of Children and Family Services (Department) as chief of its office of personnel and labor relations. On July 17, 1986, defendant Civil Service Commission (Commission) ruled that the Department had established cause for plaintiff's discharge. Plaintiff subsequently...

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