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  "id": 5329915,
  "name": "In Re Application of Margaret Marinec",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Marinec",
  "decision_date": "1977-11-14",
  "docket_number": "No. 00125",
  "first_page": "376",
  "last_page": "378",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 376"
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    "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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      "In Re Application of Margaret Marinec"
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      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim arising out of the death of a police chief 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 that:\n1. Alsip Police Chief, Raymond Marinee, was pronounced dead at Ingalls Memorial Hospital, Harvey, Illinois, at 12:33 a.m. on Saturday, November 6,1976, at the age of 38.\n2. At 8:05 p.m., on Friday, November 5,1976, Chief Marinee, was stricken with a heart attack, in a Home-wood, Illinois restaurant, while attending a retirement party for another policeman sponsored by the South Suburban Association of Chiefs of Police, of which Chief Marinee was a member. He was taken directly to the hospital by ambulance, after being stricken.\n3. The death certificate submitted by the Claimant indicated the immediate cause of death as \u201ccardiac arrest, with an approximate interval between onset and death of seconds, due to or as a consequence of acute myocardial infarction, hours, due to, or as a consequence of, coronary artery disease years.\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... \u201cif 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\n5. While testimony and evidence were presented as to Chief Marinee\u2019s devotion to duty, the hours he worked, and the many services he performed, as the Alsip Police Department\u2019s Chief, he was not \u201ckilled in the line of duty\u201d as defined in, and required by, the Act.\nIt is hereby ordered, by reason of the foregoing, that the claim for benefits by Margaret Marinee, pertaining to the death of her husband, Raymond Mari-nee, be, and the same is hereby denied.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Peter A. Loutos, Attorney for Claimant.",
      "William J. Scott, Attorney General for Illinois; Vincent J. Biskupic, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 00125\nIn Re Application of Margaret Marinec\nOpinion filed November 14, 1977.\nPeter A. Loutos, Attorney for Claimant.\nWilliam J. Scott, Attorney General for Illinois; Vincent J. Biskupic, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent."
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