Spear v. Board of Education of North Shore School District No. 112

How courts have described this case

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

• “Under Illinois law, employment which is not for a fixed term is presumed to be at will . . . .”
• a court may not, under guise of construction, depart from a statute’s plain meaning or otherwise change the law by supplying omissions, remedying defects, annexing new provisions, substituting different provisions, or adding exceptions, limitations or conditions
• “Teachers subject to tenure, a status known as ‘contractual continued service,’ are in a readily distinguishable class of school employees and are provided special statutory procedural safeguards *** which we believe do not apply to [ESPs].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).