Legal Opinion
Club Misty, Inc., Doing Business as Tequila Roadhouse v. James Laski, Clerk of the City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 3, 2000No. 99-1597, 99-1628PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Two licensed taverns in Chicago appeal from the district court’s dismissal of then-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.
Illinois liquor licenses are revocable only for good cause during the one-year term of the license, and are renewable as a matter of right when the term expires…
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