I was in court yesterday, April 27, 1999 before Judge Darrah
regarding the Binding Referendum litigation.
Basically, this is what happened:
I withdrew my motion for substitution of judge because you are not allowed to select the
judge to whom your case is transferred.
The respondent's motion for substitution of attorneys was granted because there was no
objection to it. Peregrine, Stime, et al is the firm that represents the village and they
felt that there was a conflict since Ed is now on the board, so they withdrew from the
case and substituted another attorney from a firm downtown.
The respondents' motions for dismissal were set for hearing on June 11, 1999, with a
briefing schedule as follows: I have 14 days to respond to their motion, they get another
7 days to respond to my response and I get 7 more days to respond to that.
The respondents' motions to dismiss are based upon my supposed failure to name the proper
parties to the action. I named "Municipal Officers Electoral Board of the Village of
Lisle, Illinois" and sent copies of the motion by Certified Mail, Receipt Requested
to Ron Ghilardi, Judy Yuill and Judy Lagro. They claim that because Ron and the two Judys
were not named in the caption of the case that the case should be dismissed for lack of
subject matter jurisdiction. They cite a case where a petitioner made no mention of the
Electoral Board whatsoever in the caption and did not serve notice on the individual
members and they think that that case applies to mine. We should be in and out rather
quickly on June 11, 1999. |
