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CHANEY v. CIVIL SERVICE COMM'N

No. 52555.

82 Ill.2d 289 (1980)

412 N.E.2d 497

FORREST R. CHANEY et al., Appellees, v. THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (Myra Turner, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

Robert G. Heckenkamp, of Heckenkamp & Simhauser, P.C., of Springfield, for appellees.

James P. Manak, of Glen Ellyn, Fred E. Inbau, of Chicago, and Wayne W. Schmidt, of South San Francisco, California (Richard J. Brzeczek and James B. Haddad, of Chicago, and James A. Murphy, of Peoria, of counsel), for amici curiae Americans For Effective Law Enforcement, and the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, Forrest R. Chaney and David Imber, were discharged from their positions as agents of the Illinois Bureau of Investigation (IBI) for refusing to obey an order of the IBI superintendent directing plaintiffs to return to the operation of a tavern in an undercover law-enforcement capacity. Plaintiffs filed grievances with the Civil...

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