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  "id": 3112468,
  "name": "W. Paul Tedder, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Tedder v. State",
  "decision_date": "1988-05-04",
  "docket_number": "No. 86-CC-2102",
  "first_page": "201",
  "last_page": "203",
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      "cite": "40 Ill. Ct. Cl. 201"
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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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    "parties": [
      "W. Paul Tedder, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Patchett, J.\nClaimant in this case was a resident of the Illinois Department of Corrections. He is seeking to recover money damages from the Respondent on the basis that his personal property was either lost or converted by agents of the Respondent.\nClaimant alleges that beginning on September 20, 1985, he was moved about by the Department of Corrections. He further alleges that his personal property was packed in boxes and later lost by agents of the Respondent. He claims that the property lost was worth two hundred seven dollars and forty cents ($207.40). That property included throw rugs, a Samsonite briefcase, keys, and a magnifying glass. These items had been confiscated by the Illinois Department of Corrections and held under their rules and regulations.\nAt the hearing in this cause before the Commissioner, there was virtually no dispute as to the factual basis of the Claimant\u2019s complaint. Indeed, the Respondent admitted to the loss of Claimant\u2019s property and further admitted that the throw rugs, Samsonite briefcase, keys, and magnifying glass were being held by the Respondent as \u201ccontraband.\u201d Accordingly, there is no issue as to the Claimant\u2019s entitlement to an award for that property other than the property being held by the Respondent was \u201ccontraband.\u201d\nClaimant asserted that the Respondent\u2019s institutional regulations as to \u201ccontraband\u201d were unconstitutional. In effect, the Claimant has asked the Court of Claims to declare that procedures of the Illinois Department of Corrections to be in violation of certain statutes in the constitutions of both the State of Illinois and the United States. Claimant is further asking to be awarded the fair value of such property removed from his ownership pursuant to such regulations.\nThe Court of Claims simply does not have jurisdiction to consider such a claim. This Court cannot consider the constitutionality or validity of either regulations or statutes.\nInsofar as that part of the claim concerning property not being held as contraband, the Claimant describes the value for that part of his property as being $134.40. Since all of these items have been used, there will be some reduction in their value.\nWe therefore award the Claimant one hundred dollars ($100.00) to cover the value of that property which was indeed lost by agents of the Respondent.\nWe hereby deny the Claim as to those items of property which are being held by the Respondent pursuant to regulations of the Illinois Department of Corrections.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Patchett, J."
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "W. Paul Tedder, pro se, for Claimant.",
      "Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Suzanne Schmitz, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 86-CC-2102\nW. Paul Tedder, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed May 4, 1988.\nW. Paul Tedder, pro se, for Claimant.\nNeil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Suzanne Schmitz, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
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