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IN RE APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR

Docket No. 122949.

129 N.E.3d 1181 (2019)

2019 IL 122949

IN RE APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (Better Government Association, Appellant; the Office of the Special Prosecutor et al., Appellees).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 25, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Topic and Joshua Burday , of Loevy & Loevy, of Chicago, for appellant.

Daniel Rubinstein , Sean G. Wieber , Patrick R. O'Meara , and Michael A. Meneghini , of Winston & Strawn LLP, of Chicago, for appellee Office of the Special Prosecutor.

Edward N. Siskel , Corporation Counsel, of Chicago ( Benna Ruth Solomon , Myriam Zreczny Kasper , Irina Dmitrieva , and Jane Elinor Notz , Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for other appellees.

Brendan J. Healey , of Mandell Menkes LLC, of Chicago, and Katie Townsend , Adam A. Marshall , and Michael W. Shapiro , of Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

OPINION

¶ 1 Defendants, the City of Chicago (City) and the office of the special prosecutor (OSP), denied the requests of plaintiff, the Better Government Association (BGA), to disclose, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 ILCS 140/1 et seq.

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