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CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION v. BOARD OF EDUC.

No. 112566.

963 N.E.2d 918 (2012)

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION, Local No. 1, American Federation of Teachers, Appellee, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF CHICAGO et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

February 17, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Franczek, Jr. , Sally J. Scott and Abizer Zanzi , of Franczek Radelet P.C., and Patrick J. Rocks and Susan M. O'Keefe , all of Chicago, for appellants.

Thomas H. Geoghegan and Michael P. Persoon , of Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan, Ltd., Robert E. Bloch and Omar Josef Shehabi , of Dowd, Bloch & Bennett, and Robin Potter and Jennifer N. Purcell , all of Chicago, for appellee.

Elaine K.B. Siegel , of Chicago, for amici curiae Parents United for Responsible Education and Designs for Change.

OPINION

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

¶ 1 This court accepted certified questions of law from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ill. S.Ct. R. 20 (eff. Aug. 1, 1992). The court of appeals asks whether sections 34-18(31) and 34-84 of the School Code (105 ILCS 5/34-18(31), 34-84 (West 2010)) "give laid-off tenured teachers either (1) the right to be rehired after an economic layoff, or (2)...

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