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Arthur G. Jaros Jr. v. Village of Downers Grove, Illinois, et al.

Paid petition · Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, No. 2-18-0654 · judgment June 25, 2020


Certiorari denied · October 18, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

I. Notwithstanding its Home Rule Powers, did the Respondent Village of Downers Grove Violate Petitioner Jaros’ First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech by Engaging in a Retaliatory Removal of Jaros from his Statutory Six Year Term as Public Library Trustee Because Jaros, in such Official Capacity, Had Made Policy Statements Based on Illinois Statutory Law While Engaged in a Library Board Legislative Function Where, Under the State’s Local Public Library Act, Library Board Trustees are Appointed by Elective Action of the Village Council of the Geographically Correlative Village Municipal Corporation? II. Notwithstanding its Home Rule Powers, did the Respondent Village of Downers Grove Deprive Petitioner Jaros of a Liberty and/or Property Interest in his Statutory Position, including its Six Year Term, as a Trustee of a Public Library Governed by the Illinois Local Library Act Where Respondent Summarily Truncated that Term by Summary Action that Terminated Jaros’ Service as Trustee without any Opportunity for him to be Heard and Therefore in Violation of his Federal Constitutional Right under the Fourteenth Amendment to Procedural Due Process of Law?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Arthur George Jaros Jr.
Law Office of Arthur G. Jaros, Jr.

For respondent
John B Murphey
Odelson, Sterk, Murphey, Frazier & McGrath, Ltd.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 18 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 29 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/15/2021.
  3. Sep 27 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent The Village of Downers Grove, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Aug 23 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 29, 2021)