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Illinois State Chamber of Commerce v. Filan

Case Date: 12/31/1969
Court: Supreme Court
Docket No: 100197 Rel

Docket No. 100197-Agenda 25-May 2005.

THE ILLINOIS STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Appellee, v.
JOHN FILAN, in his Capacity as Director of the Governor's Office
of Management and Budget, et al., Appellants.

Opinion filed October 6, 2005.

JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case concerns the constitutionality of a portion of Public Act 93-32, known as the FY2004 Budget Implementation (State Finance-Revenues) Act (Budget Act) (Pub. Act 93-32, eff. in relevant part on June 20, 2003). The circuit court of Cook County granted partial summary judgment to plaintiff, the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce (Chamber), finding the Budget Act unconstitutional as applied to the Chamber, based on violations of the uniformity clause of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. IX,