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Calibraro v. Board of Trustees

854 N.E.2d 787 (Ill. App. Ct. 2006)
Calibraro v. Board of Trustees

5 Citing cases

  1. People v. Johnson

    368 Ill. App. 3d 1146 (Ill. App. Ct. 2006)   Cited 69 times
    Finding the decision to not request a limiting instruction for other-crimes evidence may have been trial strategy to not draw attention to the evidence

    When construing a statute, we must give effect to the legislature's intent. Calibraro v. Board of Trustees of Buffalo Grove Firefighters' Pension Fund, 367 Ill. App. 3d 259, 262, 854 N.E.2d 787, 790 (2006). "[I]n determining the legislature's intent, the court may properly consider not only the language of the statute, but also the reason and necessity for the law, the evils sought to be remedied, and the purpose to be achieved."

  2. Alford v. Shelton (In re Estate of Shelton)

    2016 Ill. App. 3d 140163 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016)   Cited 1 times

    In any event, even if there were some tension between these two provisions, the specific duties imposed in section 2–10.3(b) would control over the general principle announced in section 2–7. See Sierra Club v. Kenney, 88 Ill.2d 110, 126, 57 Ill.Dec. 851, 429 N.E.2d 1214 (1981) ; Calibraro v. Board of Trustees of the Buffalo Grove Firefighters' Pension Fund, 367 Ill.App.3d 259, 262, 305 Ill.Dec. 195, 854 N.E.2d 787 (2006). ¶ 41 For the reasons set forth above, we reverse the trial court's dismissal of Doris's estate's claim.

  3. Ball v. County of Cook

    385 Ill. App. 3d 103 (Ill. App. Ct. 2008)   Cited 33 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In Ball, the court considered whether section 20–175 encompassed the plaintiffs' claims for tax refunds based on homestead exemptions.

    See 210 Ill.2d R. 341(h)(7) (issues not raised by appellants are waived).           Plaintiffs next argue that their claims for common law remedies should not have been dismissed under section 2-619 of the Code of Civil Procedure because a section 2-619 motion admits the legal sufficiency of the complaint, citing Calibraro v. Board of Trustees of the Buffalo Grove Firefighters' Pension Fund, 367 Ill.App.3d 259, 261, 305 Ill.Dec. 195, 854 N.E.2d 787 (2006) (" A section 2-619 motion to dismiss admits the legal sufficiency of the complaint and raises defects, defenses, or other affirmative matters that appear on the face of the complaint or are established by external submissions that act to defeat the claim" ). A defense to plaintiffs' common law claims is the existence of a statute of limitation.

  4. People v. Karmatzis

    373 Ill. App. 3d 714 (Ill. App. Ct. 2007)   Cited 6 times

    When construing a statute, we must give effect to the legislature's intent. Calibraro v. Board of Trustees of Buffalo Grove Firefighters' Pension Fund, 367 Ill. App. 3d 259, 262, 854 N.E.2d 787, 790 (2006). "[I]n determining the legislature's intent, the court may properly consider not only the language of the statute, but also the reason and necessity for the law, the evils sought to be remedied, and the purpose to be achieved."

  5. City of Bloomington v. Ill. Labor Relations Bd.

    373 Ill. App. 3d 599 (Ill. App. Ct. 2007)   Cited 4 times
    Explaining that the standards set forth in the Promotion Act are the "default," and from there the parties may go about negotiating changes

    The best evidence of the legislature's intent is the language of the statute itself. Calibraro v. Board of Trustees of the Buffalo Grove Fire-fighters' Pension Fund, 367 Ill. App. 3d 259, 262, 854 N.E.2d 787, 790 (2006). A court must consider the statute as a whole so that no term is rendered superfluous or meaningless.