Legal Opinion
Woelffer v. Happy States of America, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 7, 1985No. 85 C 3301PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
DECKER, District Judge.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA), its director, Michael T. Woelffer (Woelffer), and a private advertising agency, Zechman & Associates, Advertising, Inc. (Zechman) 1 , brought this declaratory judgment action against Happy States of America, Inc. (Happy States), a Virginia corporation. Plaintiffs seek a judicial declaration that 1) the State of Illinois’ use of the slogan, “Illinois, you put me in a happy state,” in its current tourism campaign does not violate the federal or state law rights of defendant and…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. HaldermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Hutto v. FinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Alabama v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by27 opinions
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- Koehler v. Iowa College Student Aid Commission (In Re Koehler)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota · 1997
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