Pilsen Neighbors Community Council v. Burris

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

■ MORAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs filed this suit in October 1980 challenging the constitutionality of Illinois’ Wage Deductions for United Fund Act (the Act), Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 127, MI 371, 372. That statute, as it was enacted in 1961, authorized the Comptroller for the State of Illinois (defendant) to establish procedures by which state employees could contribute money directly from their paychecks to charitable agencies under the “umbrella” of the United Way.1 Plaintiffs, as charitable organizations, sought to solicit funds in 1980 from state employees pursuant to the…