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  "id": 5323019,
  "name": "In Re Application of Shirley M. Gora",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Gora",
  "decision_date": "1977-11-14",
  "docket_number": "No. 00105",
  "first_page": "367",
  "last_page": "368",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 367"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "In Re Application of Shirley M. Gora"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim, arising out of the death of a policeman allegedly killed in the line of duty, seeks payment of compensation to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries pursuant to the provisions of the \u201cLaw Enforcement Officers and Firemen Compensation Act,\u201d (hereafter, the Act) Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 48, Sec. 281 et seq., 1975.\nThe Court has carefully considered the application for benefits submitted on the form prescribed and furnished by the Attorney General; a written statement of the decedent\u2019s supervising officer, and a report by the Illinois Attorney General\u2019s Office which substantiates matters set forth in the application. Based upon these documents and other evidence submitted at a hearing before the Court on October 12,1977, the Court finds as follows that:\n1. Joliet Police Sgt., Edward Gora, died February 14, 1976, at Silver Cross Hospital, Joliet, at the age of 46.\n2. He was stricken with a heart attack, in a restaurant, on Saturday, December 30, 1975, while off-duty out of police uniform, and not within his regularly assigned police employment; and he was hospitalized from said date until his death;\n3. The death certificate submitted by the Claimant recites the immediate cause of death as \u201cacute coronary thrombosis, due to or as a consequence of obstructive lung disease\u201d with other significant conditions recited as \u201crecent acute coronary.\u201d\n4. Section 2, subparagraph (e) of the Act provides, in relevant part, that \u201ckilled in the line of duty\u201d means losing one\u2019s life as a result of injury received in the active performance of duties as a law enforcement officer ... if the death occurs within one year from the date of the injury received and if that injury arose from violence or other accidental cause.\u201d\n5. Sgt. Gora was not killed in the line of duty as defined in the Act.\nIt is hereby ordered, by reason of the foregoing, that the claim for benefits by Shirley M. Gora, pertaining to the death of her husband, Edward A. Gora, be, and the same is hereby denied.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 00105\nIn Re Application of Shirley M. Gora\nOpinion filed November 14, 1977."
  },
  "file_name": "0367-01",
  "first_page_order": 481,
  "last_page_order": 482
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