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LEHNHAUSEN v. DOWNS

No. 61753.

36 Ill. App.3d 940 (1976)

344 N.E.2d 762

ROBERT J. LEHNHAUSEN, Director, Department of Local Government Affairs, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ANTHONY DOWNS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (5th Division).

Opinion filed March 12, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (Robert A. Tingler, Assistant Attorney General, and Paul M. Sengpiehl, Office of Financial Affairs, of counsel), for appellant.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Sheldon Gardner, Paul P. Biebel, Jr., and Henry A. Hauser, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellees P.J. Cullerton and George M. Keane.

Albert E. Jenner, Jr., and Keith F. Bode, both of Chicago, for appellee Anthony Downs.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE LORENZ delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, in his capacity as Director of the Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs, filed three complaints seeking to enforce subpoenas against defendants or alternatively to cite defendants for contempt of court. (Lehnhausen v. Cullerton, No. 72 L 10209; Lehnhausen v. Downs, No. 72 L 9957; and Lehnhausen v. Keane, No. 72 L 11597.) Defendants...

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