Opinion

Anderson v. Schneider

  • 67 Ill. 2d 165
  • 8 Ill. Dec. 514
  • 365 N.E.2d 900
  • 1977 Ill. LEXIS 311
Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Filed
Jun 1, 1977
Status
Published
Author
Ward
On the bench
Dooley, Ward, Goldenhersh, Moran
Cited by
31 cases

The opinion

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARD, dissenting:

I would add only this comment to Justice Goldenhersh’s persuasive dissent. The majority acknowledges that a court must give effect to what the legislature intended, but then remarkably (to me) it ignores plain language and says we should read “a complete list of candidates” as “a list of candidates.” This of course has the effect of rewriting the sentence, and it nullifies the legislature’s specification (“*** a complete list”).

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