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  "id": 5340831,
  "name": "Virginia Polimeni, as wife of John Polimeni, deceased, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Polimeni v. State",
  "decision_date": "1972-06-13",
  "docket_number": "No. 00012",
  "first_page": "395",
  "last_page": "396",
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      "cite": "28 Ill. Ct. Cl. 395"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Virginia Polimeni, as wife of John Polimeni, deceased, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Perlin, C.J.\nThis claim was filed pursuant to Ch. 48, Sec. 281 et seq., Ill.Rev.Stat., 1971, \u201cLaw Enforcement Officers and Firemen Compensation Act.\u201d The Court is in receipt of the Application for Benefits and Statement of Supervising Officer, as well as an investigative report by the Illinois Attorney General\u2019s office. Based upon these documents the Court finds as follows:\nThat the claimant, Virginia Polimeni, is the wife of the decedent and is the named beneficiary under the Application for Benefits. That the decedent, John Polimeni, was a volunteer fireman for the Vernon Fire Protection District, engaged in the scope of duty on June 21, 1971, within the meaning of Section 282 of the aforecited act. On said date he suffered extreme traumatic injuries resulting in his death when the fire department pumper truck he was driving failed to complete a s-shaped curve, overturned and went into a ditch. The Court further finds that the Attorney General\u2019s office in its investigation has determined that this claim is within the scope of the above cited statutes:\n\u201cSection 282 (e) \u2018killed in the line of duty\u2019 means losing one\u2019s life as a result of injury received in the active performance of duties as a law enforcement officer or fireman if the death occurs within one year from the date the injury was received and if that injury arose from violence or other accidental cause. . . .\u201d\nIT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the sum of $10,000.00 (TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS) be, and the same hereby is, granted to Virginia Polimeni, as wife and next of kin of the decedent, John Polimeni.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Perlin, C.J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Virginia Polimeni, Claimant, pro se.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General, and Vincent Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 00012\nVirginia Polimeni, as wife of John Polimeni, deceased, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed June 13, 1972.\nVirginia Polimeni, Claimant, pro se.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General, and Vincent Biskupic, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0395-01",
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  "last_page_order": 414
}