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ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASS'N v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 06 C 7014.

492 F.Supp.2d 891 (2007)

ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION and A.N.A.C, d/b/a Allen's New American Café, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

June 12, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Stuart Rosen, Grant Young Lee, Michael David Richman, Reed Smith LLP, Chicago, IL, Martin Sander Kaufman, Atlantic Legal Foundation, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Andrew S. Mine, David Alan Grossman, Mardell Nereim, City of Chicago, Law Department Corporation Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MANNING, District Judge.

Foie gras, or "fatty liver," is produced using the French practice of gavage, which involves feeding ducks or geese with the goal of fattening their livers. The practice dates back to at least Roman times, when Pliny the Elder wrote of the practice of feeding geese dried figs to enlarge their livers. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book VIII, Ch. 77 (Teubner ed.1909). In the nineteenth century, the debate...

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