Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 243]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Trustees of University of Illinois Hospital and University of Illinois at the Medical Center." T h e complaint alleges that the plaintiff was a patient at the University Hospital in March of 1977 when he was operated on by University personnel in a careless and negligent manner resulting in a permanent damage to his voice. Damages in the sum of $100,000 are sought. T h e university counsel has recommended that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University in this matter and to defend the claim. I concur.

T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Kooper, Mr. Sobotka, Mr. Watson; no, none. O n motion of M r . Howard, authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Donoghue, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Stone, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. Litigation Initiated by Robert William Brooks, III

(33) A complaint has been filed in the Circuit Court of Champaign County (Case No. 79 C 260) by Robert William Brooks, I I I , a University employee at the Urbana-Champaign campus, challenging the enforcement by the University of its parking regulations at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The University is the sole defendant. The complaint is in four counts and seeks certain declaratory judgments and injunctive relief. T h e complaint alleges that the plaintiff has received approximately twenty parking violation citations from the University and has accumulated a total of $140 in parking violation fines and assessed monetary penalties which he has not paid. It is alleged that the University is threatening to withhold a portion of the plaintiff's salary until the alleged fines and penalties are satisfied. T h e complaint alleges further that the University has failed to provide plaintiff with fundamental due process required by the state and federal constitutions in that he has been given no notice or opportunity for hearing regarding the University's intended withholding of his salary. It is also alleged that over the past five years plaintiff has received approximately forty other parking violation citations and has paid to the University the sum of $280 in connection therewith. The complaint seeks declaratory judgments regarding the University's right to regulate off-street and on-street parking facilities through the use of parking meters and to issue parking violation citations and assess fines and penalties in connection therewith. The complaint also seeks a declaratory judgment that the plaintiff does not owe the unpaid $140 in purported parking violation fines and penalties and is entitled to recover the $280 previously paid by him for parking violations. In addition, the court is requested to declare the plaintiff's right to a notice and opportunity for full hearing as to the parking violation citations. T h e court is asked to enjoin the University from withholding any of the plaintiffs salary in connection with these parking matters. T h e university counsel has recommended that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University in this matter and to defend the action. I concur.

T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Kooper, Mr. Sobotka, Mr. Watson; no, none.