Bill v. Education Officers Electoral Board of Community Consolidated School District No. 181

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• noting that all of the board members who participated in making the decision by voting on the outcome of the election dispute were necessary parties
• finding that the petitioner’s failure to name and serve the individual members of the electoral board deprived the circuit court of subject matter jurisdiction
• noting that all of the Board members who participated in making the decision by voting on the outcome of the election dispute were necessary parties
• affirming the circuit court's dismissal of the petitioners' petitions for judicial review for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where the petitioners failed to name and serve the individual members of the electoral board
• these are “four distinct requirements that must be complied with in order to properly confer jurisdiction upon” our courts
• until the statute is changed to require that all board members affix their signatures to an order, “it becomes the burden of a plaintiff to go beyond the order to determine the necessary parties that need to be served”

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