
A bid to force the city’s top public health official to answer questions under oath about rejecting a Southeast Side scrap-metal operation was denied by an administrative judge Monday.
Reserve Management Group is trying to overturn a permit decision for the relocated General Iron by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration. As part of that effort, a company lawyer sought to make Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady sit for a deposition, something that a city lawyer called “totally unnecessary.”