{"id":385,"date":"2009-03-30T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T23:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2009-04-07T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:06:26","slug":"burnette-victorious-in-suit-against-stroger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/30\/burnette-victorious-in-suit-against-stroger\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnette Victorious in Suit Against Stroger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The appellate court issued a 32-page opinion, according to today&#8217;s (3\/30\/09) Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, written by Justice Robert E. Gordon that holds &#8221;\u00a0(1) The public defender is an entity capable of bringing suit; (2) Burnette had standing to contest Stroger&#8217;s actions; (3) Stroger lacked authority to impose unpaid furlough days on designated member&#8217;s of Burnette&#8217;s staff; and (4) Stroger lacked authority to select who would be laid off&#8221;. \u00a0It is also reported that Stroger&#8217;s attorney and the Special Assistant State&#8217;s Attorney representing the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender are working on crafting a settlement in this case before his term expires tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Read the case by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2009\/1stDistrict\/March\/1082908.pdf\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appellate court issued a 32-page opinion, according to today&#8217;s (3\/30\/09) Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, written by Justice Robert E. Gordon that holds &#8221;\u00a0(1) The public defender is an entity capable of bringing suit; (2) Burnette had standing to contest Stroger&#8217;s actions; (3) Stroger lacked authority to impose unpaid furlough days on designated member&#8217;s of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}