Miceli v. Lavelle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that filing a “Statement of Economic Interests” with respect to the Chicago Board of Education did not satisfy the requirement, for a candidate running for alderman, to file a statement with respect to the City of Chicago
• if a decision would mean that “a candidate could always circumvent,” then that cannot be what the legislature intended
• the purpose of the “Statement of Economic Interests” is to open “up [the candidates] to public scrutiny and allow[ ] a better informed electorate to choose among the alternative candidates on a more rational basis”
• the “policy” behind the “Statement of Economic Interests” is “clear. The legislature intended that certain information be available to the public prior to the election with respect to actual or potential conflicts of interest that a candidate might have.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).