Downtown Disposal Services, Inc. v. The City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• concluding “a per se nullity rule is unreasonable” and rejecting rule that “any act of legal representation undertaken by a non-attorney on behalf of a corporation renders the proceedings void ab initio”
• “It is not every case where the views or interests of a principal and the corporation mesh. By requiring an attorney to represent a corporation in legal proceedings, this problem is mitigated.”
• “We hold there is no automatic nullity rule. Instead, the circuit court (continued...
• refusing to apply a per se nullity rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).