Opinion
No. 99121.
Opinion filed December 1, 2005. Rehearing denied January 23, 2006.
Appeal from the Industrial Commission Division of the Appellate Court for the First District; heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, the Hon. Alexander P. White, Judge, presiding.
Robert S. Kosin and Marilyn I. Kosin, of Chicago, for appellant.
John P. Bergin, of Braun, Strobel, Lorenz, Bergin Millman, P.C., of Chicago, and Charles E. Reiter III, of Maywood, for appellee.
In this case, one Justice of this Court has recused himself and the remaining members of the Court are divided so that it is not possible to secure the constitutionally required concurrence of four judges for a decision (see Ill. Const. 1970, art. VI, § 3). Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed. The effect of this dismissal is the same as an affirmance by an equally divided court of the decision under review but is of no precedential value. See People v. Griffith, 212 Ill. 2d 57, 58 (2004), citing Perlman v. First National Bank, 60 Ill. 2d 529, 530 (1975).
Thomas, C.J., took no part.