CLUB MISTY, INC. v. LASKI

Nos. 99-1597, 99-1628.

208 F.3d 615 (2000)

CLUB MISTY, INC., doing business as Tequila Roadhouse, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James LASKI, Clerk of the City of Chicago, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 3, 2000


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence C. Marshall (argued), Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, Richard G. Schoenstadt, Siegel, Moses, Schoenstadt & Webster, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants in No. 99-1597.

Lawrence C. Marshall (argued), Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, James F. Carlson, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants in No. 99-1628.

Brian L. Crowe, Shefsky & Froelich, Chicago, IL, Benna R. Solomon (argued), Susan S. Sher, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees in No. 99-1597.

Benna R. Solomon (argued), Julian Henriques, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees in No. 99-1628.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and MANION, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

Two licensed taverns in Chicago appeal from the district court's dismissal of their suit to enjoin an Illinois state statute pursuant to which the plaintiffs would have lost their licenses had they not been granted preliminary relief that continues on appeal. The statute, 235 ILCS 5/9-1 et seq., is challenged both as depriving the plaintiffs of their property without due process of law and as a bill of attainder.

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