OSWALD v. HAMER

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Joyce and Kenneth Flaxman, of Law Offices of Edward T. Joyce & Associates, P.C., and Joan M. Mannix, both of Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, of Chicago (Carolyn E. Shapiro, Solicitor General, and Carl J. Elitz, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for appellees.

Steven F. Pflaum, Tonya G. Newman, and Collette A. Brown, of Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, of Chicago, and Mark D. Deaton, General Counsel, of Illinois Hospital Association, of Naperville, for intervening defendant-appellee.

John M. Izzo and Eugene C. Edwards, of Hauser & Izzo, LLC, of Flossmoor, for amici curiae Illinois Association of School Administrators et al.

Legal Assistance Foundation, of Chicago (Caroline Chapman and Miriam Hallbauer, of counsel), for amicus curiae.

Justices Howse and Rochford concurred in the judgment and opinion.