Whether, in the City of Chicago, the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions violates the due process requirements of the United States Constitution. In Chicago, accusations of municipal ordinance violations are adjudicated by a cadre of administrative hearing officers who are nonemployee contractors, and whose contracts last no longer than a day. They are hired, or not, from one day to the next, at the pleasure of the City. State supreme courts are split on this question. The supreme courts of California, South Carolina and West Virginia have ruled that such conditions of employment undermine judicial independence, and are constitutionally impermissible. The Illinois Supreme Court permits them.

Whether the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions in the City of Chicago violates due-process