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PEOPLE EX REL. BRAZEN v. FINLEY

No. 64119.

119 Ill.2d 485 (1988)

519 N.E.2d 898

THE PEOPLE ex rel. LIONEL I. BRAZEN, Appellee, v. MORGAN M. FINLEY, Circuit Clerk, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 11, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Joan S. Cherry, Deputy State's Attorney, and Susan Condon, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellants.

Lionel I. Brazen, of Chicago, appellee pro se.

Jerold S. Solovy, Barry Sullivan, Raymond T. Reott and Bruce A. Boyer, of Jenner & Block, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Special Commission on the Administration of Justice in Cook County.

Richard L. Thies, of Springfield, and Jeffrey W. Williams, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois State Bar Association.

David P. Pasulka, of Barclay, Damisch & Sinson, Ltd., and Joseph G. Phelps, of Rinella & Rinella, Ltd., both of Chicago, for amici curiae Decalogue Society of Lawyers and the North Suburban Bar Association.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Lionel Brazen filed suit in the circuit court of Cook County against Morgan Finley, clerk of the circuit court of that county, and Douglas Curtis, one of his employees, seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants to accept a petition for dissolution of marriage unaccompanied by an affidavit required by Cook County circuit...

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