BABCOCK & WILCOX v. DEP'T OF HUMAN RGTS.

No. 2-88-0735.

189 Ill. App.3d 827 (1989)

545 N.E.2d 799

BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS et al., Respondents.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Opinion filed October 13, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry J. Close, of Connolly, Oliver, Close & Worden, of Rockford, and Sullivan & Cromwell, of New York, New York (William A. Ziegler, of counsel), for petitioner.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Office of General Counsel, of Human Rights Commission, of Chicago (Robert J. Ruiz, Solicitor General, and Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for respondents Human Rights Commission and Department of Human Rights.

Carol H. Hallock, of Williams & McCarthy, P.C, of Rockford (Samuel J. Castree, Jr., of counsel), for respondents Edmund Henkelman, Oleta Britt, Elden Amans, Florence Maycraft, Dwight VanFleet, Gerald Stahl, James Breseman, Charles Rewerts, Godfrey Farrell, Thomas Ivy, John Downing, Arthur Helgerson, and Walter Pierce.

Smith, Hallock & Talley, of Rockford, for other respondents.


Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE NASH delivered the opinion of the court:

This case was initiated by a complaint filed with the Illinois Human Rights Commission (the Commission) by the Department of Human Rights (the Department) on behalf of certain former employees of petitioner, the Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W). The complaint charged that B&W violated section 2-102(A) of the Illinois Human Rights Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 68, par. 2-102...

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