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  "name": "Airwork Corp., Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Airwork Corp. v. State",
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  "docket_number": "No. 90-CC-1366",
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    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Airwork Corp., Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent."
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        "text": "ORDER\nMontana, C.J.\nThis cause coming to be heard on the motion of Respondent to dismiss Claimant\u2019s claim, due notice having been given the parties hereto, and the Court being fully advised in the premises;\nThe Court finds: That Respondent\u2019s motion was brought pursuant to section 2 \u2014 619(a) (9) of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 110, par. 2\u2014 619(a)(9)). That Claimant filed this action as a lapsed appropriation matter, and seeks interest on an invoice dated 10/18/88, for which suit was filed in the Court of Claims on 10/25/88 as No. 89-CC-1154. Claimant appears to seek interest for the time that the claim was pending before this Court.\nWe find that even though Claimant has invoked \u201cAn Act to require prompt payments by the State of Illinois for goods or services\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 127, par. 132.401 et seq.), the invoice at issue herein was filed against the Department of Transportation one year and 18 days after the end of the 90-day grace period following the end of the fiscal year and the Department\u2019s ability to pay such invoice. After September 30, the Department was unable, by law, to pay any bills for the prior fiscal year and any vendors with unpaid bills had to file in the Court of Claims.\nThis Court has previously ruled, in Branch-Nicoloff Co. v. State (1988), 40 Ill. Ct. Cl. 253, that the Prompt Payments Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 127, par. 132.401 et seq.), does not authorize interest on claims in the Court of Claims which would accrue after the responsible agency\u2019s ability to pay has ended.\nWe find that the ability of the Department of Transportation to pay the invoice at issue herein ended before an obligation to pay interest would have begun.\nIt is hereby ordered that the motion of Respondent be, and the same hereby is granted, and Claimant\u2019s claim is dismissed, with prejudice.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Montana, C.J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Defrees & Fiske, for Claimant.",
      "Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Steven Schmall, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
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    "head_matter": "(No. 90-CC-1366\nAirwork Corp., Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOrder filed September 10, 1990.\nDefrees & Fiske, for Claimant.\nNeil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Steven Schmall, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
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