The three men were fired by Sheriff Tom Dart’s personnel board years ago but could get their jobs back as part of a still-growing legal morass around what a higher court has said were Dart’s illegal appointments to his disciplinary board. The Illinois Appellate Court ruled that Dart broke state law when he appointed one of the members of his Cook County Sheriff’s Merit Board — the personnel board that handles hirings, firings and all suspensions of over 30 days — to a term less than six years as the law requires. That ruling affects decisions made by the board from 2011 to 2015.