Morgan v. The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation

              Sixth Division
February 13, 2009
No. 1-07-1058
RUSSELL A. MORGAN,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL
AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, and
DANIEL E. BLUTHARDT, Acting Director of
the Division of Professional Regulation of the
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court
of Cook County
05 CH 21064
Honorable
Nancy J. Arnold,
Judge Presiding
JUSTICE McBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court affirming the revocation of Dr. Russell
Morgan’s license to practice clinical psychology by the Illinois Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On February 23, 2005, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
filed a petition praying for the summary suspension of Dr. Russell Morgan’s clinical psychologist
license based upon allegations that he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with four of his
female patients by touching their breasts and vaginas during treatment sessions. Three of these
violations occurred at the Royal Oaks Care Center, a residential facility, in Kewanee, Illinois,
with which plaintiff had contracted to provide psychological services to its patients. Because of
this conduct, the Department asserted that Dr. Morgan’s continued practice of clinical