{ "id": 2929361, "name": "KENNETH BAILEY, Petitioner, v. THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION et al., Respondents", "name_abbreviation": "Bailey v. Human Rights Commission", "decision_date": "1993-08-12", "docket_number": "No. 4\u201492\u20140858", "first_page": "853", "last_page": "857", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "247 Ill. App. 3d 853" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "612 N.E.2d 964", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "weight": 2, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "967" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "243 Ill. App. 3d 751", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 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THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION et al., Respondents." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "PRESIDING JUSTICE STEIGMANN\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nIn October 1990, PPG Industries (PPG) discharged petitioner, Kenneth Bailey, after over 27 years of employment. In April 1991, petitioner filed discrimination charges with the Illinois Department of Human Rights (Department), claiming that PPG had discriminated against him based on his age (46 years old at the time of his discharge), race (white), and physical handicaps (physical ailments of angina and emphysema) when PPG discharged him. In February 1992, the Department had completed its investigation and notified petitioner that it was dismissing his charges because it found no substantial evidence to support them. In March 1992, petitioner appealed the Department\u2019s decision to the Illinois Human Rights Commission (Commission), one of the respondents in this case. In September 1992, the Commission affirmed the Department\u2019s dismissal of petitioner\u2019s charges. In re Kenneth Bailey (Sept. 21, 1992),_Ill. Hum. Rights Comm\u2019n Rep__(HRC No. 1991-SA-0600).\nPetitioner appeals the Commission\u2019s order of dismissal regarding his charge of age discrimination, arguing that substantial evidence exists that PPG discriminated against him based on his age when it terminated him, and thus the Commission erred in ordering dismissal. Petitioner does not appeal the Commission\u2019s order dismissing his charges of discrimination based on his race and physical handicaps.\nWe affirm.\nPetitioner brought his charges of discrimination under the Illinois Human Rights Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 1\u2014101 et seq.). Section 8\u2014111(A)(1) of the Act provides the following for judicial review of actions brought under the Act:\n\u201cJudicial Review. Any complainant or respondent may apply for and obtain judicial review of a final order of the Commission entered under this Act by filing a petition for review in the Appellate Court within 35 days after entry of the order of the Commission, in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 335.\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 8\u2014111(A)(1).)\nThus, under this section of the Act, petitioner has a direct right of appeal to this court if he files a petition for review with this court \u201cin accordance with Supreme Court Rule 335.\u201d Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 8\u2014111(A)(1).\nRespondent Commission argues that we need not reach the merits of petitioner\u2019s case because his failure to name the Department as a respondent in his petition for review deprives this court of jurisdiction over his appeal. Respondent claims that on administrative review, this court possesses only special and limited jurisdiction. Thus, respondent claims that because petitioner only named the Commission and PPG as respondents, he has not invoked this court\u2019s limited jurisdiction. Respondent PPG has not filed an appearance in this appeal.\nRespondent explains this argument by pointing out that Supreme Court Rule 335(a) (134 Ill. 2d R. 335(a)) and section 8\u2014103 of the Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 8\u2014103) dictate that the Department must be made a respondent on petitioner\u2019s petition for review. Supreme Court Rule 335(a) states that \u201c[t]he agency and all other parties of record shall be named respondents.\u201d (Emphasis added.) (134 Ill. 2d R. 335(a).) Respondent claims that the Commission is the \u201cagency\u201d and the Department is a \u201cparty of record\u201d in this case. Additionally, respondent points to section 8 \u2014 103(A) of the Act, which states that the Commission has jurisdiction over a claimant\u2019s request for review of a Department\u2019s decision to dismiss a charge and that in such a request, \u201cthe Department shall be the respondent.\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 8\u2014103(A).) Because petitioner failed to name the Department as a respondent, respondent argues that petitioner\u2019s petition for review is not \u201cin accordance with Supreme Court Rule 335,\u201d and therefore, this court has no jurisdiction to review his case.\nReview of administrative proceedings by this court is a departure from common law, and thus procedures established for such review must be strictly followed. (See Lockett v. Chicago Police Board (1990), 133 Ill. 2d 349, 353, 549 N.E.2d 1266, 1267; Associated Gen eral Contractors v. Chun (1993), 245 Ill. App. 3d 750, 754.) We recognize that both Lockett and Chun were decided under the Administrative Review Law (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 110, par. 3\u2014101 et seq.), which is not invoked by the Act. However, we find that the general discussion in Lockett that procedural requirements set forth for administrative review must be strictly followed also applies to administrative review actions brought under Rule 335. As the supreme court has stated, its rules are in fact rules of procedure and not suggestions. (People v. Wilk (1988), 124 Ill. 2d 93, 103, 529 N.E.2d 218, 221.) Furthermore, we see no reason to establish two different standards of review for review of administrative proceedings. Therefore, we additionally find that if these procedural requirements are not met, we lack subject-matter jurisdiction over a direct appeal to this court under Rule 335. See Chun, 245 Ill. App. 3d at 754.\nIn this case, petitioner neither named the Department as a respondent, nor sought to amend his petition for review to make the Department a respondent. Petitioner concedes that the Department is a \u201cparty of record\u201d that he should have named as a respondent under Rule 335. However, petitioner argues that we should not hold that his failure to strictly comply with the requirements of Rule 335 deprives this court of jurisdiction to review his appeal of the Commission\u2019s order.\nIn support of his position that this court has jurisdiction, petitioner cites Parham v. Macomb Unit School District No. 185 (1992), 231 Ill. App. 3d 764, 596 N.E.2d 1192, where this court recently rejected an application of the Lockett decision to administrative review under Rule 335. In Parham, the petitioner named only the employer as a respondent in his initial petition for review of the Commission\u2019s order, which he filed within the statutory 35-day time period. (See Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 8\u2014111(A)(1).) However, under Supreme Court Rule 303(e) (134 Ill. 2d R. 303(e)), this court had granted petitioner\u2019s motion to amend his petition to name the Commission and the Department as respondents brought within 30 days after the statutory 35-day limit had expired. (Parham, 231 Ill. App. 3d at 769, 596 N.E.2d at 1195.) Significantly, this court stated that it did not need to reach the issue of whether the petitioner\u2019s failure to name the Commission and the Department was a jurisdictional defect barring review under Rule 335 because it had allowed petitioner to amend his petition under Rule 303(e), thereby curing any jurisdictional defect. (Parham, 231 Ill. App. 3d at 769, 596 N.E.2d at 1195.) Because petitioner here has not attempted to amend his petition to add the Department as a respondent, this case is distinguishable from Parham. As the Parham court noted, that decision was limited to \u201cthe facts of [that] case.\u201d Parham, 231 Ill. App. 3d at 769, 596 N.E.2d at 1195.\nWe note that the Third District Appellate Court recently addressed the same jurisdictional issue raised here in McGaughy v. Human Rights Comm\u2019n (1993), 243 Ill. App. 3d 751, 612 N.E.2d 964, and we acknowledge that the facts in McGaughy are similar to those in the present case. In McGaughy, the petitioner named the employer and the Commission as respondents in her petition for review of the Commission\u2019s order but failed to name the Department. After quoting from Parham, the third district found the analysis in Lockett did not apply to review under Rule 335 and concluded that it had jurisdiction over that appeal. (McGaughy, 243 Ill. App. 3d at 755, 612 N.E.2d at 967.) As we earlier stated, we find that the general proposition stated in Lockett \u2014 that review of administrative proceedings must strictly follow procedural requirements \u2014 is controlling in this case despite the fact that Lockett was decided on the basis of the Administrative Review Law. We disagree with McGaughy and decline petitioner\u2019s request to follow it.\nFor the reasons stated, we dismiss petitioner\u2019s petition for review of the Commission\u2019s order because of his failure to invoke this court\u2019s jurisdiction over his appeal.\nAppeal dismissed.\nMcCULLOUGH and LUND, JJ., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "PRESIDING JUSTICE STEIGMANN" } ], "attorneys": [ "Law Office of James P. Baker, of Springfield (James P. Baker (argued), of counsel), for petitioner.", "Roland W. Burris, Attorney General, of Springfield (Rosalyn B. Kaplan, Solicitor General, and Jennifer A. Keller, Assistant Attorney General (argued), of Chicago, of counsel), for respondents." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "KENNETH BAILEY, Petitioner, v. THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION et al., Respondents.\nFourth District\nNo. 4\u201492\u20140858\nArgued July 20, 1993.\nOpinion filed August 12, 1993.\nLaw Office of James P. Baker, of Springfield (James P. Baker (argued), of counsel), for petitioner.\nRoland W. Burris, Attorney General, of Springfield (Rosalyn B. Kaplan, Solicitor General, and Jennifer A. Keller, Assistant Attorney General (argued), of Chicago, of counsel), for respondents." }, "file_name": "0853-01", "first_page_order": 871, "last_page_order": 875 }