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Stroger v. Regional Transportation Authority

Case Date: 08/24/2001
Court: 1st District Appellate
Docket No: 1-00-2545 Rel

SIXTH DIVISION
AUGUST 24, 2001




No. 1-00-2545

 

JOHN H. STROGER, JR., President of the Cook )APPEAL FROM THE
County Board of Commissioners, and BERNARD)CIRCUIT COURT
SCAVELLA, a registered voter residing in the 4th)OF COOK COUNTY.
District of Cook County,)
)
Plaintiff-Appellants,)
)
v.)
)
The REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY,)
a municipal corporation, METRA, the Commuter Rail)
Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, and)
PACE, the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional)
Transportation Authority,)HONORABLE
)MOSHE JACOBIUS,
Defendants-Appellees.) JUDGE PRESIDING.


JUSTICE CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, John H. Stroger, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, andBernard Scavella, a registered voter residing in Calumet City, Cook County, Illinois, brought thisaction for declarative and injunctive relief against the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), the Commuter Rail division of the RTA (Metra), and the Suburban Bus Division of the RTA(PACE) (collectively, defendants), alleging that certain provisions of the statute empoweringdefendants, the Regional Transportation Authority Act (the RTA Act), violate certain principlesof the Illinois Constitution. The trial court denied plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunctionand granted defendants' motion to dismiss.

On appeal, plaintiffs contend that the appointment provisions of the RTA Act: (1) violatethe "one person, one vote" guarantee embodies in Article I,