Smith v. Waukegan Park Dist.

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• holding that “under established Illinois law, public entities pos- sess no immunized discretion to discharge employees for exercising their workers’ compensation rights.”
• finding that public employers may not invoke immunity in retaliatory discharge cases and overruling the case upon which Defendant relied
• declining to apply immunity section of Illinois Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act “in cases of retaliatory discharge because the employer, not the employee, ultimately causes the injury”
• “[W]e declare, under established Illinois law, [that] public entities possess no immunized discretion to discharge employees for exercising their workers’ compensation rights.”
• “Section 2-109 only grants immunity to a public entity from ‘an injury resulting from an act or omission of its employee where the employee is liable”

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