William Fellion v. Illinois State Toll Highway Authority — 47 Ill. Ct. Cl. 436

WILLIAM FELLION, Claimant, v. ILLINOIS STATE TOLL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY, ILLINOIS STATE TOLL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION PLAN, and JOHN W. KIEP, ROBERT L. HICKMAN, RICHARD W. DEROBERTIS and NICHOLAS W. JANNITE Individually and as members of the Pension Plan Committee, Respondents.

Case summary

Claimant alleged wrongful denial of pension benefits by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority and its pension plan. The court dismissed the claim for lack of jurisdiction because the Authority is not amenable to suit in the Court of Claims.

Claim type: Other

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JURISDICTION-claim against Illinois State Toll Highway Authority dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. A claim against the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, alleging wrongful denial of the Claimant’s pension benefits, was dismissed because the Authority is an entity which is not amenable to suit in the Court of Claims and over which the Court has no jurisdiction.

COTIGUALA & MENNES (JAC A. COTIGUALA, of counsel), for Claimant. JIM RYAN, Attorney General (ROBERT SKLAMBERG, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondents.

MITCHELL, J.

ORDER

MITCHELL, J.

This cause coming on to be heard on the motion of the State of Illinois to dismiss the claim herein; due notice having been given the parties hereto, and the Court being fully advised in the premises: [*437]

The Court finds that Claimant herein has filed a multiple-count complaint for, essentially, alleged wrongful denial of his pension benefits by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority Defined Benefit Pension Plan, and certain individuals as members of the committee of that pension plan.

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, including its subdivisions and its employees, is an entity which is not amenable to suit in the Court of Claims and over which this Court has no jurisdiction. This Court has consistently dismissed all such cases properly lying against the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, and we hold that the instant claim should likewise be dismissed.

It is therefore ordered that the motion of the State of Illinois be, and the same is, hereby granted, and the claim herein is dismissed, with prejudice.