Mann v. Calumet City, Ill., 588 F.3d 949 (2009)
Successful constitutional defense of an ordinance preventing an owner from selling property until an inspector has determined the property is in compliance with municipal building ordinances.
Successful constitutional defense of an ordinance preventing an owner from selling property until an inspector has determined the property is in compliance with municipal building ordinances.
Landmark election case where the city’s electoral board’s decision to sustain objections to candidates’ nomination papers for failure to give statutory notice was upheld.
Landmark election case removing state Senate candidate from the ballot after he failed the statutory party-switching requirement by voting in the most recent opposing party primary.
Landmark election case defending a challenge to compel the certification of a binding referendum question after the village clerk used her apparent conformity authority to withdraw certification because the petition was facially deficient.
Due process challenge to the City’s point-of sale ordinance which required homes to be in compliance with building and zoning codes prior to sale. The City prevailed in its position.
Perhaps the last of the election recount cases involving punch card voting. Represented an unsuccessful mayoral candidate in a landmark election case overturning the election results after the election, and seating the unsuccessful mayor in office after votes were subtracted from the successful candidate for fraudulent conduct involving absentee ballots.
Successful challenge to sufficiency of public question referendum involving the issuance of bonds wherein the binding requirement of petitions was upheld.
Candidate for city mayor sought judicial review, on due process grounds, of decision by city’s electoral board that sustained objector’s challenge to sufficiency of candidate’s nominating petitions.
Defended a challenge to compel the certification of candidates after the city clerk, pursuant to her apparent conformity authority, denied certification because the candidates’ statements of economic interests were not filed in the same calendar year as their nominating petitions, as required by the Election Code.
Landmark election case representing an unsuccessful state Representative candidate in a challenge involving a tie vote with voting irregularities and missing ballots, resulting in candidate winning the case and being elected Representative in the General Assembly.