SHEFFLER v. COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO.

No. 110166.

955 N.E.2d 1110 (2011)

353 Ill. Dec. 299

Frances SHEFFLER et al., Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied September 26, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry D. Drury , Ilan J. Chorowsky , John H. Alexander and Robert A. Langendorf , all of Chicago, for appellants.

John Joseph Hamill , Erinn L. Wehrman , Elizabeth L. Liebschutz and Nangah N. Tabah , of Jenner & Block LLP, of Chicago, for appellee.

Peter D. Coblentz , of Rosenthal, Murphey, Coblentz & Donahue, and Norman T. Finkel and Richard M. Goldwasser , of Schoenberg Finkel Newman & Rosenberg LLC, all of Chicago, for amicus curiae Village of Deerfield.

Michael M. Conway , Theodore T. Eidukas , Katherine E. Licup and Jonathan W. Garlough , of Foley & Lardner LLP, of Chicago, for amici curiae The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company et al.


OPINION

Justice THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 Plaintiffs, Frances Sheffler, Mark Resnik, and Debra Sloan, individually and on behalf of Jason Sloan, filed a complaint on behalf of a putative class against defendant, Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), seeking damages and injunctive relief for power outages to their homes following severe storms. Plaintiffs filed an initial complaint, followed by a first, second and third...

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